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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/20/07 16:18
Ben C wrote:
> 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.
Agree totally. That is why IE is abominable for debugging. It is "so
good" at second-guessing intent when junk is thrown at it that fails
miserably when it gets valid markup...
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Take care,
Jonathan
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