RE: HTMLDocument interface for write() and writeln() needs an update

Not sure why it's the opposite but I may be missing something.  The
advantage of allowing extensibility with an extension processing model
of "ignore" is that a future version of HTML could do something with the
extra arguments in a compatible way with this version.  If multiple
arguments are not allowed, then there can never be a compatible
evolution of HTML that allows multiple arguments.  Exactly akin to
HTML's longstanding practice of allow extra markup and ignoring unknown
markup.  In general, I like the model of allowing extra things and
requiring they be (roughly speaking) ignored.

Cheers,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:19 PM
> To: David Orchard
> Cc: Anne van Kesteren; HTML WG
> Subject: RE: HTMLDocument interface for write() and writeln() 
> needs an update
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, David Orchard wrote:
> >
> > I meant that we should make it explicit that multiple arguments are 
> > allowed and the extra ones are ignored in this version.
> 
> Isn't that the exact opposite of what we want?
> 
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