Re: XML namespaces on the Web

Shelley Powers scripsit:

> I can understand the concept of fatal error, but draconian means
> "extremely harsh and severe". I don't see that one needs to be
> punitive when reporting an error, especially when parsing XHTML in a
> browser.

Relative to the behavior of HTML parsers, XML parsers are indeed draconian.

> Perhaps rather than redefine XML, make it looser, we need to educate
> browser developers about being aware of the user environment in which
> they operate, and respond to errors accordingly.

Indeed.

-- 
Let's face it: software is crap. Feature-laden and bloated, written under
tremendous time-pressure, often by incapable coders, using dangerous
languages and inadequate tools, trying to connect to heaps of broken or
obsolete protocols, implemented equally insufficiently, running on
unpredictable hardware -- we are all more than used to brokenness.
                   --Felix Winkelmann

Received on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 18:55:53 UTC