- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:43:53 +0200
- To: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
2007-09-12 21:52:57 +0200 James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > >>>> «rowgroup simply works»? Well, it «it simply works» in the Table >>>> Inspector. I hope we can make into a tool we can trust. >>> I'm not sure that's possible for HTML4 given the lack of a proper >>> specification. It's not entirely clear to me what you mean with >>> "trust" either. The tool is open source and everyone can simply fork >>> their own version. >> >> «trust» as in «bug free». > > The problem is no one can agree what the HTML4 spec means. In that sense it > is the spec itself that is untrustworthy as one cannot author content, or > write tools, to one's own interpretation of the spec and have reasonable > confidence that any other person will have interpreted it in the same way. This is a bit exaggerating. > This would be a real problem if our task was to write errata for HTML4. > Fortunately it is not. Therefore we can concentrate on the rather more > interesting task of working out what the HTML 5 spec ought to say in order > that it is as useful as possible. It is not interesting if we are ignoring what we have, and set forth as if we had just arrived at terra nullus. -- leif halvard silli
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