- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:01:41 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, public-html@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky scripsit: > I don't know what you mean by "legal", but every possible sequence of > bytes has a fixed interpretation as an HTML5 document... Well, when I look at 9.1 of the 27 October 2009 draft, I see "Documents must consist of the following parts", and in 9.1.1 "A DOCTYPE is a mostly useless, but required, header". What is the effect of violating these mandatory constraints? > > Most programmers *want* draconian error handling of their code. > > Most people writing HTML aren't programmers and don't particularly want > to be. Sure, which is why it's sensible to have a tag-soup standard for HTML at this point. XML is another ball of wax. -- No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous cowan@ccil.org internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex. --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev
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