Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
> It depends how you view your service. For example,
> does Hotmail throw 
> out extension headers? (I'd be surprised if it did,
> but I don't know)

I can ask if you feel it is relevant to this
discussion. 

> It depends on whether you see the APP as a way to
> throw something at the 
> server and see what sticks, or as a messaging
> gateway that preserves 
> what it can. I'm not suggesting either approach is
> the right way to go, 
> but both are reasonable.

>From my perspective the APP would be a way to create
content on our servers. We at no time guarantee that
we will store what was sent with full fidelity. For
example, we support a subset of HTML (e.g. no script
blocks) but we don't error when users post blog
entries with 'banned' HTML elements instead we just
strip them. 

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