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Posted by Gérard Talbot on September 29, 2005, 3:48 pm
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Harlan Messinger a écrit :
> Gérard Talbot wrote:
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>> Travis Newbury a écrit :
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>>> Gérard Talbot wrote:
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>>>> Cross-posted to: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html and alt.html
>>>> Followup-to: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
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>>>
>>> You seem to have missed the point that validation is a "tool" not a
>>> "goal"
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>> A tool for developers: correct. But here, in that document, I'm
>> addressing mere visitors who see a valid HTML 4.01 (or CSS) icon and a
>> link explaining what this is about.
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> Why is a visitor interested at all? The visitor only cares if the page
> looks OK and is usable. What would be useful would be a logo announcing
> NON-conformance, to be place on pages with invalid code, so that users
> having trouble with a page, when they see the logo, will say, "Oh, no
> wonder, the code's invalid. No surprise that my browser isn't displaying
> it correctly."
Actually more and more browsers are doing that in various ways, are
announcing erroneous or problematic code which may affect the rendering
in pages in various ways.
Icab with its frown icon, Dillo browser apparently (I have not verified
their claim), Amaya 9.2.1 does that indicating clearly the parsing
errors, HTML Tidy (more of a linter but nevertheless), as a Firefox
extension, will report unknown elements, unknown attributes, improper
nesting, wrong code, etc.
Gérard
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