- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:57:36 -0700
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 10:46 -0700 15/05/08, Matt Morgan-May wrote: >On 5/15/08 12:43 AM, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> The notion that a syntax specification should require software >> conforming to the specification to produce syntactically non- >> conforming output under some circumstances is patently bizarre. We >> shouldn't require something that is bizarre in a way that it doesn't >> fit the software developer mindset, because then we don't get the >> reactions we want from software developers. > >So what should an authoring tool do when someone creates an <img> element >with no @src? (Not a 404, a missing @src.) What about a missing </table>? An >unclosed attribute value? An unterminated entity? Guessing at any of these >things can have unintended negative consequences. These are all syntax errors (or pointless constructions) which a WYSIWYG tool can easily avoid. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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