- From: Harold A. Driscoll <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:19:49 -0500
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <hoermi@arcormail.de>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
At 10:37 13-05-99 , Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >Why blow up the code? The change: The issue which concerns me is whether portability is a matter of dumbing down the code on all platforms to accommodate feature-impaired platforms, or provide a dumbed-down version only for the crippled platform(s). Occasionally, introducing a simplification is desirable, when it actually benefits all platforms. Sending error reports to STDERR is the "right" thing to do. Some of us do not always do so, perhaps, but still it is quite desirable. And something that can have subtle (but substantial) beneficial effects on using a tool in a variety of (often yet to be imagined) situations. I'm not sure if your argument is that "it doesn't matter in the type of situations one might encounter in a Windows 9x environment" or "it is just as good even in situations encountered only in full operating systems" as well. Not being sure when I'll have time to explore this further, at least for the nonce I'll leave this as an expressed concern. /Harold -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harold A. Driscoll mailto:harold@driscoll.chi.il.us #include <std/disclaimer> http://homepage.interaccess.com/~driscoll/
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