- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:04:17 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: > > 1) Firefox and Webkit, should not give a single point of failure for a > missing entity as they do now, (unless they switch to a validating > parser which finds no declaration in the external file and the user is > in validation mode), since such failures in a document with an external > DTD are NOT well-formedness errors unless the document deliberately > declares standalone=yes. > 2) Explorer, which no longer seems to require in IE8 that the document > be completely described by the DTD as I believe it had earlier (though > it will report errors if the document violates rules which are > specified), should, per the spec, really only report validation errors > upon user option (ideally, I would say, off by default, and activatable > on a case-by-case as well as preference-based basis). This will possibly > speed things up if the option could be disabled as well as let their > browser work with documents which violate validation. But this issue is > not as serious as #1, since #1 prevents even valid documents from being > interoperably viewed on the web. > [...] These issues seem out of scope for HTML5. I recommend bringing them up with the respective vendors directly. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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