- From: Joe D'Andrea <jdandrea@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:05:26 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Joe D'Andrea wrote: >Kornel Lesinski writes: >>Many authors don't have slightest idea that there's something >>wrong with their code. This can be solved - make standard IE >>distribution warn about deprecated features and problems >>exposed by invalid code. [ ... ] > Oh dear me. I foresee a LOT of phone calls from my mom asking me about that one. Mine too ... also my father-in-law (who actually calls about web issues more often than my mom) <!>. What if you could warn in a non-invasive way? For example, when IE flags a JavaScript error, there's an icon to that effect in the status bar. No message boxes. How about something like that? > ... if your requirement is that for every possible bug, > we also implement code that can automatically detect when > that bug might take effect and warn the user, we will get > a lot fewer bugs fixed. Perhaps handle it more like a deprecation, which doesn't specify a particular drop-dead date but pro-actively advises an alternate path: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecated -- Joe D'Andrea www.joesapt.net
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