- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:26:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Billy Wong wrote:
>
> First, my idea would not, and should not, break the whole web. If it is
> really deployed, it would only break webpage that are not well-formed in
> this particular way.
That's a large fraction of the Web.
> Second, this discussion begins to be for error-handling in HTML5. I
> believe the motto "Make the wrong looks wrong". Since the introduction
> of CSS and its ability to do "div span { blahblahblah; }", we can't go
> back to IE's insectual appoach. If the error-handling mechanism make
> people feel mixing open-close-tags "okay" and then the mechanism doesn't
> work up to their expectation occasionally, they will blame the browser
> and never notice their fault. Unless we can find a perfect mechanism
> which will never "break" their expectation, the problem will go on.
> And I suppose the mechanism we are discussing here should be used only
> in HTML5 onward, something the whole web not using these day.
HTML browsers won't get more than one parser. Whatever we spec here has to
work as a replacement for HTML parsers entirely, for all HTML content.
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