- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:58:59 -0400
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > That's not weird. We're all human and make mistakes. The design has to > take imperfection into account. This means imperfection in the > implementation, the generated HTML (whether by hand or tool), even the > specification, etc. > > Even skillful web developers rely on error handling as can be seen by > the broken tools (no tool is perfect) they sometimes have to work with. > > The web is also not solely for skillful web developers, but also for > teachers who quickly want to set up some coursework pages for > instance. They might want to edit HTML by hand, but you can't expect > them to fully comprehend what they're doing up to the details of > setting up the right MIME types and dealing with character encoding > issues. That's just silly. (Those last points probably apply to > "skillful" web developers as well as quite often they have some > encoding issue although I suspect that problem might be less visible > now since blogging tools have mostly fixed their issues with those.) +100,000 -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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