- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:52:45 +1100
- To: Shane McCarron <xhtml2-issues@hades.mn.aptest.com>
- CC: jim@jibbering.com, www-html-editor@w3.org
Shane McCarron wrote: > Jim Ley wrote: >> Also please define what a Conforming XHTML 2 Family User Agent should do in >> the situation where PARAM's are not placed as per the restriction. >> >> <object ...> >> <p>Fallback</p> >> <param name="height" value="40" valuetype="data" /> > > 2) we don't define error behavior, in particular in the case of validation > errors. You need to define error handling. The fact is that authors will write invalid markup and assuming that example was well formed, you need to explicitly define whether or not a UA should make use of that param element for interoperability reasons. If you don't, you'll likely end up with a situation where one implementation will ignore it because it occurs after other content and another uses it regardless, and from that the defacto standard behaviour will be determined based on the market share of each. > This is handled by XML. XML only defines what that a validating UA should report an error in this case, it doesn't define anything about whether or not the param element should be used or ignored. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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