- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:05:06 +0200
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
During implementation, Opera found a potential bug in the spec that intermixes conformance checker behavior with UA behavior. In Rule for Verifying a File Entry, we think the following assertion should be dropped as a UA requirement: "2. The version needed to extract is greater than 20 (meaning the archive is using a feature unsupported by this specification, such as Zip64), return false and terminate this algorithm." [1] The above forces the UA to only support a specific version of the Zip implementation. This is probably a bad idea from an extensibility perspective. We believe it is better for a conformance checker to inform the author when they have used features not supported by the specification, but not to put such restrictions on UAs. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/#rule-for-verifying-a-file-entry -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
Received on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 09:16:18 UTC