- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:14:06 -0700
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr.: >> At that point we'll be sure that we can't trust authors, > > If we can learn anything from Google’s success or from charset and mediatype sniffing, it is that *we cannot trust authors* (or at least we cannnot, usually, trust their explicit markup and meta data better than implicit information gathered by advanced heuristics). It’s sad, but we’re human after all. > > That’s said with my author’s hat on, wearing glasses of a sociopsychologist. You can't necessarily extrapolate from those in general. Those became polluted because there was no feedback when it was done wrong. We *are*, in general, able to trust data tied to noticeable feedback. ~TJ
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