So effectively I _think_ you're agreeing that specifications by themselves are more or less useless without requiring conformance from the implementations whose results _are_ the specification as far as most users and developers are concerned. On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 15:24, Keith Moore wrote: > > > 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 > -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.comReceived on Friday, 31 May 2002 15:51:51 UTC
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