- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:50 +0200
- To: HTML4All <list@html4all.org>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:21:34 +0200, Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@royal-tunbridge-wells.org> wrote: > Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > >>> Saying that such products should be >>> programmed to output invalid HTML isn't a viable answer, either. >> >> Why not? Almost *every* tool I know of that produces HTML produces >> invalid >> HTML, so I am not sure how you determine that there is some existential >> reason why this cannot happen. > > Are you serious, Charles ? Are you really arguing that > the generating of invalid code is an acceptable option ? Yes. Under certain circumstances it is an acceptable option, if the choice is between several things, none of which produce a desired outcome and this is the one that does the least harm, and if the consequential effects. It is even in W3C recommendations. > If so, I would seriously suggest you move a motion to > disolve the W3C, since it would have no role whatsoever > in the anarchic world that you appear to be willing to > tolerate. Actually, I think W3C has an important role to play in the anarchic world in which I live. I did not validity is not important. The point of my question is that it is clearly feasible to produce invalid code without the web grinding to a halt (since the web works despite being almost all of the HTML on it being invalid), therefore I don't understand why it is not possible to argue that breaking validity *may* be a reasonable approach to a given problem. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com
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