ISSUE-20: What should specifications say about error handling?

errorHandling-20

What should specifications say about error handling?

State:
OPEN
Product:
HTML 5 review
Raised by:
Henry S. Thompson
Opened on:
2002-05-22
Description:
Shepherd: Henry Thompson

Rank: high

deliverables: ???

issue scope: What should specifications say about error handling?


community affected: WGs working on data formats: SVG WG, HTML WG, XHTML 2 WG, RDFa's WG

re-opened 9 Dec 2008 in a discussion of HTML5, tag soup, and error handling: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/12/09-minutes.html#item04

announcement of decision: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Dec/0044

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  3. Minutes from April 26 TAG Telcon (from robin@berjon.com on 2012-04-30)
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  11. agenda for TAG meeting 8-10 Dec (from connolly@w3.org on 2009-11-25)
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Related notes:

[DanC]: Postel's law, dealing with invalid content, TInkerbell effect Larry Masinter http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Jan/0075.html

22 Jan 2009, 19:29:17

[johnk]: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/03/03-agenda#errorhandling

5 Mar 2009, 19:18:28

connecting with "HTML 5 review" product a la http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/11/02-agenda

Dan Connolly, 10 Nov 2009, 17:22:16

[timbl]:

10 Feb 2011, 19:16:44

[noah]: What should specifications say about error handling?

10 Feb 2011, 19:16:46

Reviewed status of this at 10 Feb 2011 (8-10 Feb) F2F. Decided to leave this open for now, pending better understanding of where the XML/HTML Unification Task force is going with related issues.

Noah Mendelsohn, 10 Feb 2011, 19:25:04

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