http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/03/12/xhtml-technology-against-users/ Thoughts on software development and related, by Abhijit Nadgouda Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:59:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/03/12/xhtml-technology-against-users/comment-page-1/#comment-46837 Is Forgiveness The Best Approach? on iface thoughts Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:10:44 +0000 http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/03/12/xhtml-technology-against-users/#comment-46837 [...] Frankly, at the first instance, I do not like it. Forgiveness implies ignoring the errors, the errors that come out of not doing something right. And that not something right will keep haunting, will keep hindering further development. The part that I do agree with is to not let the error be all over the application. There should be a way to handle the error gracefully, and give better options to the user rather than show the error directly. The draconian handling with XHTML is one of the reasons I think it has been posed against the users’ interest. [...] [...] Frankly, at the first instance, I do not like it. Forgiveness implies ignoring the errors, the errors that come out of not doing something right. And that not something right will keep haunting, will keep hindering further development. The part that I do agree with is to not let the error be all over the application. There should be a way to handle the error gracefully, and give better options to the user rather than show the error directly. The draconian handling with XHTML is one of the reasons I think it has been posed against the users’ interest. [...]

]]> http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/03/12/xhtml-technology-against-users/comment-page-1/#comment-17092 Tony Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:52:05 +0000 http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/03/12/xhtml-technology-against-users/#comment-17092 Good point. To the average end user, the technology is so transparent, that one wouldn't notice the difference between broken HTML and valid XHTML. Browsers are build for handling faults. Good point. To the average end user, the technology is so transparent, that one wouldn’t notice the difference between broken HTML and valid XHTML. Browsers are build for handling faults.

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