Re: SVGT 1.2: Appendix C3: SVG Error Processing

> I would hope that W3C specifications are meant to be engineering  
> documents, not marketing documents.

Time to market has been stated, on this list, as one of the primary
driving factors for SVG Mobile.

> plans to do so. (Or, for a lower-level example, consider TCP/IP,  
> where being "tolerant" of invalid packets is considered actively  
> harmful.)

TCP/IP is a fuzzy term, but one of the core principles of the RFCs is
be correct in what you send but be *liberal* in what you accept, so
the key design principle is actually to tolerate non-conformance.

Received on Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:38:33 UTC