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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 18:29, Daniel Mettler wrote: |
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> nb. html 4.01 b.1: |
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> "Since user agents may vary in how they handle error conditions, |
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> authors and users must not rely on specific error recovery |
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> behavior." |
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> further |
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> "For reasons of interoperability, authors must not "extend" HTML |
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> through the available SGML mechanisms (e.g., extending the DTD, |
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> adding a new set of entity definitions, etc.)." |
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> -> it's a wrong bad habit to include browser specific attributes |
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> and it's wrong to expect them to be ignored by other browsers. |
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> this is the wrong view again. i repeat: you simply can not blame |
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> browsers for "bad" rendering of not standard compliant pages |
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> (i.e. it's *not* a bug). but you can blame them for incorrect |
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> rendering of standard compliant pages (i.e. it's a bug). |
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> just try to write parsers/renderers without clear specifications |
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> and i promise you will miserably fail. i have gone through this. |
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> html is rather "adventurous" stuff already - do not let us make |
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> it worse. |
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I stand corrected. I've done some html parsing myself. Did you know that |
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altavista relies on not welformed html to do some nifty layout. They put the |
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form opening, input, and form close tags each in a different table cell (of |
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course this is not welformed) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |