RE: Paving Cowpaths

David P. Dailey wrote:
>In my mind there are sorta two different things that a spec provides (and probably more):
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>1. Instructions to folks who make browsers
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>2. Instructions to folks who make web pages

As much as I'd love to subscribe to this philosophy, David, I think the problem is that the folks who make web pages (to make a gross generalization) don't read the HTML spec except as a last resort.  They type into Notepad (or similar text editor).  The browser is their error-checker.

-Chris

Received on Monday, 21 May 2007 16:29:08 UTC