- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 11:55:32 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, "matt@builtfromsource.com" <matt@builtfromsource.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 4 May 2007, at 22:57, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On May 4, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: > >> Jeff Schiller [mailto:codedread@gmail.com] wrote: >>> Though I wonder, if a UA mistakenly implements proposed error >>> handling >>> in WHATWG's HTML5 and content starts depending on it, isn't that >>> roughly the same problem? You're still going to have a UA >>> improperly >>> implementing a spec, content depending on it, and other UAs >>> motivated >>> to emulate this incorrect behavior. >> >> Or, more to my point, what happens when you don't specify some >> error-handling rule in the spec because you don't think of it, and >> due to different architectures multiple vendors do different >> things and ship them without realizing it. > > The spec describes what to do with every possible stream of input > characters. I think that is impossible.
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