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Do HTML and CSS need a reference implementation?
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What do you think, do HTML and CSS need a reference implementation, i. e. some sort of HTML renderer (not a full browser, no networking code, no speed optimization etc.) that correctly displays according to the standards and defines the standards in case of ambiguity? Or do you believe that the textual description of the web standards is sufficient to define them?
Would anybody see a benefit in an official reference implementation?
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Originally posted by TETENAL:
What do you think, do HTML and CSS need a reference implementation, i. e. some sort of HTML renderer (not a full browser, no networking code, no speed optimization etc.) that correctly displays according to the standards and defines the standards in case of ambiguity? Or do you believe that the textual description of the web standards is sufficient to define them?
Would anybody see a benefit in an official reference implementation?
That would be nice, but seeing how hard it is for any currently existing browser to even implement say every property of CSS2, I don't see it happening. Who's going to pay for the development time of something like that?
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"A reference implementation would be helpful" and "We can do without one" are not mutually exclusive options. I think both are probably true for CSS.
I don't think a reference implementation for HTML would be very useful at all, since it's just a markup language. If your browser can't properly parse markup, just throw in the towel right now. It's styling and measurements that mostly bite IE in the butt.
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Originally posted by Chuckit:
"A reference implementation would be helpful" and "We can do without one" are not mutually exclusive options. I think both are probably true for CSS.
I don't think a reference implementation for HTML would be very useful at all, since it's just a markup language. If your browser can't properly parse markup, just throw in the towel right now. It's styling and measurements that mostly bite IE in the butt.
IE has parsing bugs as well. Some of them are used to hide CSS it can't understand from it.
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