On 15/11/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)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.
- d.
- d.