Re: New issue: error recovery practices (Re: Proposed TAG Finding: Internet Media Type registration, consistency of use)

> And could that perhaps be because they count on the browser to cover for
> whatever mistakes they happen to make?  That is an experience browsers
> reinforce constantly.

I think it's more like "the browser effectively defines the HTML language,
getting the right result with a browser is more important than doing what
is right according to the spec, and beyond what is needed to make things
work with the browser, fixing things to conform to the spec doesn't do 
anything obvious to improve the user's experience or the site's effectiveness.

(to me it hinges on "anything obvious..." - the web site designer/maintainer
doesn't know the degree to which he's hurting himself by generating
noncomforming pages or using nonstandard extensions)

Keith

Received on Friday, 31 May 2002 15:25:45 UTC