- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:35:19 +0100
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Doug Schepers wrote: > There are UI features everyone today counts on, merely on convention... > the status bar, tooltips, alerts, scrollbars, etc. If we are trying to > create a rich and compelling development platform, I see no harm in > specifying such conventions, even if only as a SHOULD. The specification only needs to specify what is needed for interoperability. A view clean source feature is not required for interoperability and has no business being mandated by HTML5, even as a SHOULD requirement. Such a feature is something that browser vendors can develop to compete with each each other, in this case, to attract web developers, and is something already provided by the HTML Tidy extension [1] in Firefox. Besides, not all developers find it useful. I find it much more useful for View Source to show me the actual source, rather than having it attempt to clean it up for me. My experience with HTML Tidy in the past has helped me realise that automated source code clean up tools are not entirely reliable and can end up making things even worse. When I was doing web development professionally, viewing the actual source was significantly more valuable to me than some automatically cleaned up alternative. [1] http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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