Re: ^Z character in VRML files

Tim Wegner (twegner@phoenix.net)
Sat, 7 Oct 1995 14:07:36 -0500


Bernie said:

> Seriously, though, I would suggest that a well-written browser should
Bernie said:

> gracefully ignore any characters that they don't recognize (possibly
> issuing a warning as they do so).

This has been said by others, so at the risk of being repetitious,
this isn't good enough. Everything after ^z should be ignored. The
same old editors that put ^z at the end of the file can have a *lot*
of other garbage after the ^z. To take the worst case, suppose they
were editing a VRML file with an old editor and deleted a bunch of
stuff at the end. It can happen that the deleted stuff is still there
after the ^z!! This could well and truly confuse the browser.

Tim


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