- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 05:25:44 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Blanchard, Todd wrote: > > OK, I have to disagree with this - the id's MUST NOT be duplicated as > the end result is simply converting one kind of error to a different > kind of error. I don't understand why this is bad. The document isn't even well-formed in these cases, if the author cared about errors then presumably the document wouldn't have these problems. Can you point to a page that breaks because of this behaviour? > I'd also suggest that browsers should be NOISY about bad HTML such that > authors are encouraged to fix it (possibly through some disable-able > preference). That's up to the UA and is out of scope of this working group. > Making one kind of problem look like another kind of problem isn't > "HELPING" us. It isn't intended to. It's intended to make the page render so that the user can see what he can get to the information on the page. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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