Re: View Source

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:19 PM, David Woolley
<forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
> Rick wrote:

> I don't know if you are coming at this from the HTML5 or SVG side.  From the
> HTML5 side, the browser developers already have a lot imposed on them,
> because of the requirement that even invalid documents should reproduce
> essentially identically on all browsers.  If you are from the SVG side, you
> may not quite realise that this whole thread is about extending that to SVG
> as well.

I'm one of the authors of SVG, an implementor of one of the earliest
viewers and a current developer of SVG applications.  I am now and
have always been religiously in favour of requiring that invalid SVG
documents not be displayable, other that they may be displayed up to
the point of the error, at which point some useful form of error be
presented.  The available example of the huge body of invalid HTML
that exists is precisely the reason that I favour this.  The current
state of HTML aside, it does no one any service to encourage invalid
content in any way, rather it imposes a severe burden on everyone in
every camp.

So no, I do not agree with the concept, I would be appalled.

> Note that a reasonable qualification would be that the requirement only
> applied if the browser provided some sort of source display capability.
>
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-- 
Cheers!
Rick

Received on Thursday, 19 March 2009 00:58:36 UTC