- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:00:17 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>, micro xml <public-microxml@w3.org>
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 09:07 +0700, James Clark wrote: > Draconian error handling is a bad idea but I don't buy into the WHATWG > position that it is necessary to define the precise behaviour of an > implementation on any input whatsoever. What would you suggest? Allowing recovery without defining it is what led to the HTML bug-for-bug compatibility arms race. Not that anyone ever explicitly allowed it... Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition "Beginning XML" - Wrox, July 2012
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