- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:34:16 -0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
"Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com> wrote in message news:B967F07A-7D2F-462A-9E42-548657F1DCB2@apple.com... > HTML specifications have historically declined to specify error recovery > behavior. However, the end result is that current UAs must in practice > implement a large, complex, completely unspecified set of error recovery > behavior based on the behavior of past dominant UAs. No, they don't _have_ to, they choose to. And given that any error recovery will be large and complex all you're gaining is the specified part - since a dominant UA is likely to have bugs in the error recovery you are still stuck choosing either to reverse engineer the dominant UA or follow the spec even when all the content relies on the dominant UA behaviour. Specifying error recovery does nothing to solve the decision of new user agents deciding to ape the bugs and features of dominant UAs. Jim.
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