- From: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:32:49 -0500
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "Gareth Hay" <gazhay@gmail.com>, "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, "matt@builtfromsource.com" <matt@builtfromsource.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/4/07, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > Furthermore, > a must-reject policy is an unstable equilibrium, as Henri Sivonen > pointed out. If one UA mistakenly falls back on some error, ships, > and content starts depending on it, then other UAs have a motive to > emulate that error handling. And soon we are back to the ground zero > of mutually reverse-engineered error handling. I've had this same thought - and thank you Maciej for phrasing it succinctly. Though I wonder, if a UA mistakenly implements proposed error handling in WHATWG's HTML5 and content starts depending on it, isn't that roughly the same problem? You're still going to have a UA improperly implementing a spec, content depending on it, and other UAs motivated to emulate this incorrect behavior.
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