- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:57:45 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: > > 'HTML5' seems to be the approach to hide any error of the > author by doing something without informing the user about Not just something. The HTML5 philosophy is that all HTML5 viewers should do exactly the same something. The HTML5 proponents claim that authors will mainly author to the official language, but I, and others, take the view that what this is really doing is make HTML5 have no invalid constructs, so authors can write anything, view it on one browser, and if it works the way they want, that's good enough. I think with SVG, one either has legislate away error conditions in this way, or one needs to put up a prominent warning that the image is incomplete, even if one still makes a best effort to display what is available. A halfway house is to have something like HTML object that allows the author to provide explicit fallback rules (it may exist already - switch???). -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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