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Posted by Ben C on 04/20/07 16:10
On 2007-04-20, Tim Bradshaw <tfb+google@tfeb.org> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 4:34 pm, Pascal Costanza <p...@p-cos.net> wrote:
>>
>> If early browsers had rejected incorrect html, the web would have never
>> been that successful.
>>
>> What's important to keep in mind is that those who create the content
>> are end-users. It must be easy to create content, and shouldn't require
>> any specific skills (or not more than absolutely necessary).
>>
>> Stupid error messages from stupid technology is a hindrance, not an enabler.
>
> Well said.
But completely wrong.
If the stupid technology tells you at once what the error is you fix it,
and then you are less confused fours hours later when something doesn't
display the way you were expecting and you eventually track it down to a
missing closing tag somewhere.
It's not as if the authors _want_ to use incorrectly nested tags.
They're just careless mistakes that we all make and that are trivial to
fix if they're pointed out at once, but that take hours if you have to
work back from their eventual consequences. Fixing them sooner rather
than later helps the author more than anyone else.
I can only see a case for not reporting errors where it is close to
certain that they will not have consequences. In most systems such
errors are classified as "Warnings" and can be turned off.
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