Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-11 Thread Christian Montoya
The issue here is "what is incorrect code?" -- a web coder can serve up completely valid code, according to the w3c alidator, that is really awful (this, also,  is purely subjective). For actual scripting languages the same is true - a coder can serve up code from procedural hell but it runs perf

Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-11 Thread James Ellis
On 9/8/05, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . they should refuse to parse incorrect code. Hi The issue here is "what is incorrect code?" -- a web coder can serve up completely valid code, according to the w3c alidator, that is really awful (this, also,  is purely subjective). For actual

Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 9 Sep 2005, at 9:13 am, Andrew Krespanis wrote: I already see the HTML errors for every page I view [1]. The real nightmare is having the javascript console always open... so many javascript errors all over the web :( (esp. on google sites!!) And when you browse with the beta versions of F

Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Krespanis
On 9/9/05, Paul Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > although I foresee browsing with that extension may be a version of hell for > many of us - can you imagine seeing the html errors for *every* page you > viewed? I already see the HTML errors for every page I view [1]. The real nightmare i

RE: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Bennett
>Screenshots of a browser displaying (X)HTML errors in the same manner that a >compiler >does may get the message across that valid markup is important to those that >make the >decisions about such things. I'd certainly find it useful. although I foresee browsing with that extension may be a

Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Anders Ringqvist
Well Fx already do this to some extent. If you go strict strict, yes that´s two 'strict' ;-) Serving not well-formed xhtml as application/xml+xhtml to Fx will get you attention. Regards, Anders Ringqvist Chris Taylor wrote: Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers should be

Re: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/9/8, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers > > should be more like compilers... they should refuse to parse > > incorrect code. Then the enforcement would be on the output > > end, too. > > Perhaps some clever person could write a Firef

RE: [WSG] Browsers as copilers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-08 Thread Chris Taylor
> Exactly. I was actually thinking the other day, browsers > should be more like compilers... they should refuse to parse > incorrect code. Then the enforcement would be on the output > end, too. Perhaps some clever person could write a Firefox extension that does this - if Chris Pederick is on