RE: Support Existing Content

Jeff Schiller [mailto:codedread@gmail.com] wrote:
>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.

Or, more to my point, what happens when you don't specify some error-handling rule in the spec because you don't think of it, and due to different architectures multiple vendors do different things and ship them without realizing it.

Received on Friday, 4 May 2007 21:44:35 UTC