[whatwg] The problems with namespaces in text/html

[Henri Sivonen]

On Nov 6, 2006, at 16:11, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Thanks. Most of the errors that page reports are a result of third  
> party, ad network code. This is exactly the sort of problem  
> draconian error handling would have fixed. Were draconian error  
> handling the order of the day, the network wouldn't be serving  
> malformed code like that.

Rather, if your system was producing everything through a SAX  
pipeline or a tree and not including verbatim source text from third  
parties, the error would have been dealt with on your server and not  
in a user-operated HTTP client somewhere with no automated feedback  
mechanism.

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Henri Sivonen
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