RE: error tolerance within amaya from Dave J Woolley on 1999-09-08 (www-amaya@w3.org from July to September 1999)

From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:09:04 +0100
To: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-ID: <81E4A2BC03CED111845100104B62AFB53F3C9B@stagecoach.bts.co.uk>

> From:	John Russell [SMTP:VE3LL@RAC.CA]
> 
> if a style sheet  happens to miss on the background
> setting  for example    background : gris
> in amaya i get a solid black background.........
> in explorer it just says lets go with the default setting of
> the browser
> 
	HTML editors, and browsers used to verify pages,
	should never apply error recovery, except that an
	editor may apply error recovery by correcting the 
	source.

	One of the reasons for the fact that most web pages
	are invalid HTML is that people validate them with 
	browsers which attempt error recovery, so they end up
	designing for the error recovery behaviour, not to the
	specification.

Received on Wednesday, 8 September 1999 07:11:09 UTC