- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:46:25 +0100
- To: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Cc: W3C List <public-html@w3.org>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
On 1 May 2007, at 16:36, Dão Gottwald wrote: > 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. > Actually, I think it was the subject line that was missing, because I wanted to quote more than one mail I chose to forward rather than reply. And indeed illustrates my point perfectly. If you allow people to get away with shoddy practices, they won't stop. had the mail been rejected, I would have been forced to take corrective action to get the message to you all. You see this as an advantage, I see it as a disadvantage, why should I conform, when you can clearly still read my mails if I don't? >>> 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. > That was an analogy. Last time i checked there is some (en)coding involved in Blogs and MySpace, and the like anyway. Gareth
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