- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:23:23 -0500
- To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Elliotte Harold wrote: >>> Up to the application. Feed that URL to any app you like. The app >>> defines what should be done with it. Feed it to a browser, you'll get >>> one thing. Feed it to an app that wants to do somethint else, you'll >>> get something else. >> >> That's not acceptable from my point of view, basically. >> > > Doesn't matter. It's what happens anyway. If the specification doesn't define parsing, sure. If it does it can happen, but then the relevant implementations are non-compliant. > The idea that the document producer has any ability or right to specify > the behavior of a consuming application is a fiction. The idea that processing of data should be well-specified is not a fiction, though. Clearly consuming applications can ignore the specification if they really want to. -Boris
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