Re: LYNX-DEV Re: error recovery for form parsing

[Wayne Buttles]

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

>   From: Wayne Buttles <address@hidden>
>   
>   After hitting a number of these [broken forms] sites myself I am of
>   the mind that although it isn't right, we should have multiple ways to
>   parse a document for forms *as we already do for comments*
>   Comments?
>   
> Yes.  We can fix what we have for comments in the process.
> 
> At the user interface, what one wants is _one_ "try harder"
> command. 

Interesting idea.

> Please don't ask the user to select what style of parsing they
> want.

We would still have to ask what to fix.  A page with broken forms and bad
commenting may get worse if you just try to get looser on everything at
once.

Wayne

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