- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:52:41 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Ian Hickson wrote: > But yes, in principle, that's exactly what I'm saying. Specs should > define all these cases. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that HTML specifications should define browser behavior (perhaps at the SHALL level?) for all possible markup errors. Wouldn't this mean that we would effectively change the language to permit everything? If you specify mandatory error processing, aren't you actually extending the language so that the erroneous constructs involved become correct? In practical terms, authors could rely on the "error handling rules" to the same extent as on rules for "correct" constructs. And this would mean, IMHO, defining HTML as tag soup. You could write any mixture of tags and it would have a defined meaning. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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