- From: Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:47:07 -0700
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Adam Roben wrote:
> Darin Adler wrote:
>
>> On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:11 AM, Adam Roben wrote:
>>
>>>>> It may be worth stating in this section what the behavior is
>>>>> when a section or opportunistic caching namespace appears
>>>>> multiple times. The parsing algorithm makes this clear, but it
>>>>> would be clearer still to also state the behavior in this section.
>>>>
>>>> Well, that would be non-conforming. I'm not sure we want to tell
>>>> authors what the error handling behaviour is when they ignore
>>>> the conformance requirements... do we?
>>>
>>> I see. I was not looking at this part of the spec from an
>>> application author's perspective. In light of that, I think the
>>> current level of detail is appropriate.
>>
>> Our experience with HTML has taught us that authors don't
>> necessarily read the specifications nor conform. The behavior of
>> web browsers when application authors ignore conformance
>> requirements may be quite important to compatibility in practice;
>> if it's not specified then the applications end up relying on the
>> behavior of the implementation they test with.
>>
>> So I think it's worth considering being explicit about the error
>> handling. Not necessarily "for the authors", but for the benefit
>> of the web browser implementers.
>
> The error handling behavior is explicit in the parsing algorithm.
> Perhaps it's not explicit as you would like, though?
OK. Sorry, I misunderstood.
-- Darin
Received on Friday, 12 October 2007 09:47:07 UTC