- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:12:35 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
jonas@sicking.cc (Jonas Sicking) wrote: >However, another effect of draconian error handling is that a lot fewer >people are able to produce content in the language. Without making an argument either way in the so-called “draconian” issue, the days of the average user editing “web pages,” “blogs,” or “sites” in a text editor are numbered. The vast majority of the world's population will never type in a tag name, much less a pointy bracket, and ensuring that the basic syntax is “well formed” is the least of problems for an authoring tool. Thus, the way to lower the barrier for more and more diverse content production for the web can equally be argued to lie down the road of “draconian error handling” as the opposite. I might suggest dropping the appellation “draconian” as I suspect it only serves to polarize the discussions. There are probably good sound middle grounds to these issues along any number of axis. -- Everytime I write a rhyme these people thinks its a crime I tell `em what's on my mind. I guess I'm a CRIMINAL! I don't gotta say a word I just flip `em the bird and keep goin, I don't take shit from no one. I'm a CRIMINAL!
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