- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:22:24 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
John Cowan wrote: > James Graham scripsit: > >> Why would one want to make the availability of one's site critically >> dependent on not hitting those bugs given the availability of an >> alternative? > > That's just silly. Why not avoid all libraries everywhere, all the time, > and write all your own code in assembly language so you don't have to > worry about compiler/interpreter bugs, either? For clarity: I was not suggesting avoiding *libraries*. If you want to produce XML you should indeed use a library since anything you do yourself is likely to be much worse. The alternative I was alluding to is serving HTML rather than XML, thus neatly avoiding the whole issue.
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