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Rich Salz wrote: > He goes a bit overboard, but Mark Pilgrim makes some good points: > http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experiment > (What, Mark going overboard? I'm shocked I say, shocked.) Don't lose > his point: > it's not necessarily invalid markup, but different character > encodings, too. The problem is an architectural one: if you have feeds coming in from sources out of your control, you need to have a fallback mechanism for when feeds come in incorrectly, whether incorrect beause of bogus encodings or crap markup. If your application has not been coded for errors, of course it will be fragile. People who think documents should allow pieces of different encodings are thinking of the English case where characters in different encodings are probably decorations or prissiness: but if I have half of a generated HTML page in Japanese Shift JIS and half in Japanese EUC-J somehow, which one should be rendered correctly? Either way the page is crap, and the users will complain. Underneath Mark's issue is the same old one: that there are serious systems and casual systems, and the disciplines required for one is burdensome for the other. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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