- From: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 16:50:23 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Dave Fisher wrote: > In my experience, the proportion of hand-coding has risen significantly > in recent years ... as has the proportion of standard compliant > code.[1] I find this a very rewarding and encouraging observation. > Given the trend, and these causes, it is simply unacceptable for any new > HTML recommendation to ignore the needs of hand-coders. I'm sure Dave & I are on "the same side" here, but I do not understand what he means by "the needs of hand-coders"; how do these needs differ from those who use DW (or similar), yet still seek/aspire to produce elegant, compact, /correct/ code ? > While I support the view that tag soup should still be rendered sensibly > in graphical browsers, and that user agents should have conformance > guidelines which standardise this error handling, I fail to see why > those objectives prevent us from: > > 1. Producing a recommendation which allows authors to see/understand > their own errors and identify potential solutions. > > 2. Providing incentives for authors to improve their coding practice. Hear hear. [...] it's worth remembering that most of the templates which this> > software uses are hand-coded by hand-coders. I most certainly concur with that observation . Philip Taylor
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