Re: Cleaning House

On 4 May 2007, at 09:51, Lachlan Hunt wrote:

>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Speaking of which, I'm not really sure why the UA parsing  
>> requirements with respect to processing invalid content need to be  
>> normative at all. As far as I can tell, there's really no need to  
>> make them normative.
>
> If you don't make the processing requirements normative, then UAs  
> can just implement whatever they like and claim conformance.  That  
> doesn't help anyone at all, it just leaves us with the same  
> situation we're in now.  We're trying to fix the problem, not just  
> ignore it.

I agree, we are trying to fix it, We just don't agree on the method  
of fix.

I do agree that whatever the decision, it is fundamental that it is  
documented so that it is standard behaviour across UAs.

Gaz

Received on Friday, 4 May 2007 09:10:00 UTC