- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:00:14 +0300
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> What should text/html flavor conformance checkers say about <foo />? >> >> Silently treat as <foo>> as per SGML? > > Yes. What useful purpose would be served by doing so? >> Silently treat as <foo> as per real world? > > Intentionally buggy/broken behaviour should not be carried over into > conformance checkers. What do you suggest the parser layer of an text/html conformance checker say about <input checkbox ...>? 1. Silently treat as <input type="checkbox" ...>? 2. Treat as <input type="checkbox" ...> but warn? 3. Treat as <input checkbox="checkbox" ...> causing an error to be reported on a higher layer? 4. Treat as fatal error in the parser? I'm inclined to choose 3. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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