- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:03:44 -0700
- To: julian.reschke@gmx.de
- Cc: hsivonen@iki.fi, rubys@intertwingly.net, public-html@w3.org
In general, parsing of all Turing-complete code should be out of scope. In general, people include Turing-complete code in Web pages served on the wire. In general, HTML needs mechanisms to identify --- and possibly protect islands of Turing-complete code. Singling out PHP as an example, is a mistake. Julian Reschke writes: > On 19.05.2010 13:27, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > However, a .php file is not an HTML file with PHP inside. It's a PHP program with pieces of HTML source in special string literal and echo function syntactic sugar inside the PHP program. > > > > If editing PHP programs were considered to be within the charter if this WG, I'd expect those who have previously objected to e.g.<canvas> being within charter to object even more forcefully now. :-) > > For the record: I agree that parsing and conformance of PHP are out of > scope, the same way it would be as for XSLT or JSP. > > Best regards, Julian -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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