- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:16:44 +0200
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 7:34:45 AM, David wrote: >> Until we have not such specs any attempt to render partial >> content - (non-valid XHTML document) is a non-standard behavior. DW> I see a whole urban myth developing here. One needs to understand the DW> purpose of the rule, not get hung up on an over literal interpretation. Yes. Given that several people have shown that incremental rendering is not contrary to the XML spec then hopefully this undesirable myth will just die. DW> The purpose is to ensure that a generic XML browser, or a browser for DW> some other XML namespace can create a correct parse tree and use any DW> style sheets. It's also there to ensure that things that fail to parse DW> on one browser fail to parse on all browsers. Yup. DW> Incremental rendering is a very desirable property, although very DW> much undervalued by authors, judging by the number of pages that do DW> nothing for a minute then suddenly appear. In HTML, tables tended to disable incremental rendering (until CSS fixed that). -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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