- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 07:17:43 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... It's only necessary because the HTTP working group refuses to act > > in a responsible manner and actually specify how to write an > > interoperable user agent that is both compatible with the Web and > > handles invalid content. If HTTP defined how to do this, we wouldn't > > be stuck with defining it ourselves. ... > > It would be interesting to know how many pages actually have that > problem; chat on IRC indicates it is below 1/1000. > > It seems to me you're doing overspecification for edge cases here. We want full specification of all edge cases, yes. That's what any complete specification consists of -- a full specification of all cases, edge case or not. The Web has suffered enough at the hand of incomplete specifications, we have to learn from our past mistakes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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