- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:36:59 +0200
- To: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- CC: W3C List <public-html@w3.org>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Gareth Hay schrieb: >> I find it funny that technically advanced individuals in this very >> mailing list break up our nice threads again and again. What do you >> think, Gareth, should the server just have rejected your mail? > > I suppose I'm not technically advanced enough to understand the point > you are making here Dao. See <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007May/0040.html>: "In reply to" is missing. IMHO that violates our (admittedly unwritten) protocol, yet your mail wasn't rejected and I was able to read it. That was just an example for fault tolerance, and why it's needed. >> See, people aren't perfect, especially those who author HTML. User >> Agents will have to accept ill-formed mark-up. Advanced authors who >> want/need strictness and/or extensibility can chose the XHTML >> derivative (by that I don't mean XHTML2). > > To address the point I do understand, I agree, no one is perfect, but > are you really suggest something akin to using a C compiler to take some > pseudo code input and attempt to produce executable code, by hook or crook? Maybe in the future. Until today, average Jane doesn't produce programs, but she does have a blog or a myspace page. --Dao
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