- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:43:35 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
I would like to weigh in on the side of moderation: require the user agent to alert the use that the parse was invalid, but don't require it to throw away the rest of the data. Vendors will just ignore that rule anyhow. Error recovery in HTML is a product differentiator. No matter how much they bitch moan and complain, nobody would ever unilaterally move to a "validate or reject" model. And if they had started out with that model, some product would just have removed the "rejection" part in the race to be the most "flexible" and "user friendly" and the rest would have inevitably followed. And yes, having worked for technical support for a C++ vendor I can confirm that many C++ compilers and libraries will allow you to do things that are not supported by the C++ standard. Sometimes they will issue a warning and sometimes not. The best we can realistically hope for is to always get a warning. Paul Prescod
Received on Saturday, 19 April 1997 17:38:05 UTC