- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:39:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Paul Topping <pault@dessci.com>
- Cc: www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Paul Topping wrote: > > It's not clear to me what you would expect to happen if the browser did > "syntax checking". Just reject the document and display nothing? No one > would want an HTML browser to do that. Well, you and I wouldn't want that, but it isn't true to say that no-one would want that. In fact there is a huge community of people who keep asking for browsers to reject invalid content. The XML language is entirely written around the concept that invalid content must be rejected. > Even tag soup can be validated, it's just that the "standard" is the > defacto one defined by the most popular browsers. Well, we're changing that with HTML5. But yes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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