- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:46:29 +0200
- To: Marcin Hanclik <Marcin.Hanclik@access-company.com>
- Cc: "marcosc@opera.com" <marcosc@opera.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:18 , Marcin Hanclik wrote:
> I understand that the implementations may have arbitrary path lengths.
> But to ensure the interoperability from the very beginning, some
> reasonable limit could be put already.
> E.g. 1024 bytes for the maximum path length.
We've been there and done that, and it's a bad idea. It means that
content that is perfectly fine and works everywhere is classified as
invalid. And in practice no one cares about such limitations anyway —
specifications shouldn't try to define conformance beyond what
implementers are likely to do, it's just a waste of good pixels.
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