Re: Thinking about cross references and ReSpec from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2014-10-02 (spec-prod@w3.org from October to December 2014)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:00:46 -0400
To: Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Linss <peter.linss@hp.com>, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, "spec-prod@w3.org Prod" <spec-prod@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDB=r-OEsnRu3Mx5ZRhYi+TXnP9FjzHEm6oA=msQcfx4qw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Peter Linss <peter.linss@hp.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've bumped into way too many painful issues with non browser-based HTML
>>> parsers to waste more time with them.
>>
>> FWIW, Shepherd uses html5lib and AFAICT sees a browser equivalent DOM
>> which it traverses. This hasn’t been an issue to date.
>
> So does jsdom[1]. Yet I've bumped into plenty of very annoying issues with
> it (even though jsdom actually has a JS runtime, which afaik html5lib
> doesn't).

Huh.  I've never run into any problems, myself.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:01:40 UTC