- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:39:31 -0800 (PST)
- To: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Michael Day wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Indeed, which is why the spec should explicitly say _how_ to handle > > them. It already does so for many errors (invalid values, unknown > > properties, etc). Increasing it to cover ill-formed stylesheets is > > the next step. > > Hmm, my point was that the spec does say explicitly how to recover from > grammar errors, and yet many user agents get it wrong in one way or > another. The errors that the spec mentions explicitly are quite well supported. The problem is that the spec currently doesn't cover all the cases. > Explicitly stating how to recover from invalid tokens will > complicate the spec Actually there are proposals that are remarkably simple and yet cover, as far as I can tell, all cases. > and does not guarantee compliant behaviour from every user agent. Nothing guarentees compliant behaviour from every user agent. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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