- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:52:23 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > No, if you say something is non-conforming, it's non-conforming. Whether > the error handling is defined recovery, reverse-engineered undefined > recovery, or a fatal error has no effect on how strict the language is. But with mandatory error recovery and a usership that doesn't read standards it is virtually meaningless, as the market concept of what is correct is what produces the intended effect on out of the box IE and the current most popular alternative. History has shown that this will happen even in some primary HTML authoring tools, and it will certainly happen in ones where HTML authoring is part of a bigger application (e.g. nearly all HTML email violates the formal grammar (and much violates the semantics)).
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