- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:15:27 -0500
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Authors who check their pages using a conformance checker would be > alerted to the error. A typical browser can't do that (at least not by > default) because the average user just doesn't care or need to know > about such errors. That's not true. A typical browser absolutely can and certainly should alert users to bugs in the pages, and the TAG finding I cited explains why and how. Optional recourse to external validators is not sufficient, as the current state of the web proves. *Silent* error recovery from incorrect metadata is potentially dangerous. It is rightly discouraged. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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