On 15/11/2007, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
David, you seem to be railing against some argument to suddenly change the behaviour of the parser from rendering everything, to suddenly balking on bad input and spitting out "INVALID CONTENT" instead. Has anyone suggested such a thing? Whence cometh thy fury?
You suggest it in the next paragraph:
FWIW, I anticipate that the new parser will behave much like the current one, but it could also generate useful warning messages if requested. These would presumably be shown to the person saving the page, at preview time, and also to the viewer if some option were enabled.
Spitting out warnings in any situation by default is bad. Any unrequested warning at all will come across as "INVALID CONTENT COMPUTER CALLS YOU FAILURE".
That said, (a) having a lint mode (b) having an option to switch it on in user prefs would be very nice.
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