- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 11:17:54 +0200
- To: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, matt@builtfromsource.com, public-html@w3.org
Gareth Hay schrieb: > > > On 4 May 2007, at 08:44, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >>>> >>> Do you honestly think that by encouraging people to write more >>> correct code is not a help to anyone? >> >> To answer for myself: yes, I think encouraging people to write >> conforming content is somewhat helpful (though less so than >> encouraging them to actually test in multiple browsers). But I do not >> think /forcing/ people to write conforming content is a help to >> anyone, especially if author mistakes then become problems for the end >> user. And when we are talking about draconian error handling to the >> point of refusing to render, we're talking about forcing, not >> encouraging. >> >> So I'd say that I don't think "pro-actively fix[ing]" the web is a >> help to anyone, if that is taken to mean an attempt to force conformance. >> >> What's your answer? >> > I think that the situation we have just now is untenable. I don't think > any form of (your definition) encouragement is going to work, after all, > people have been pretty much free to go your way for years and haven't, > so let's try (my definition) encouraging them a different way, which > prevents them from getting things wrong. > > [aside: maybe it's because I grew up with "Segmentation Fault" fatal > errors that I don't see that kind of error handling as "wrong"] > > I think "draconian" error handling leads to a much more educated author. > Doesn't "Parse error : line 5" - tell you all you need to know? What kind of errors do you mean? Ill-formed according according to XML, an inline element containing block-level elements, a missing "alt" attribute, unknown elements/attributes/attribute values ...? --Dao
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