spec/Overview.html 1.1647 2476 Experimental attempt at listing a set of

Experimental attempt at listing a set of errors that validators can
comfortably classify as lower priority to aid transition. (whatwg r2476)

applets
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1647.html#dom-document-applets
8.2.5.4 The "initial" insertion mode
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1647.html#the-initial-insertion-mode
10.2 Conformance checkers
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1647.html#conformance-checkers-0
DOCTYPE parse error
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1647.html#doctype-parse-error
11 Things that you can't do with this specification because they are better handled using other technologies that are further described herein
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1647.html#no

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1646&r2=1.1647&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2475&to=2476

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@@ -913,7 +913,8 @@
    <li><a href=#obsolete-elements><span class=secno>10.1 </span>Obsolete elements</a>
     <ol>
      <li><a href=#the-body-element-0><span class=secno>10.1.1 </span>The <code>body</code> element</a></li>
-     <li><a href=#the-applet-element><span class=secno>10.1.2 </span>The <code>applet</code> element</a></ol></ol></li>
+     <li><a href=#the-applet-element><span class=secno>10.1.2 </span>The <code>applet</code> element</a></ol></li>
+   <li><a href=#conformance-checkers-0><span class=secno>10.2 </span>Conformance checkers</a></ol></li>
  <li><a href=#no><span class=secno>11 </span>Things that you can't do with this specification because
   they are better handled using other technologies that are further
   described herein</a>
@@ -38214,13 +38215,13 @@
     <p>If the DOCTYPE token's <code title="">name</code> is not an
     <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">HTML</code>", or if the token's public identifier is
     neither missing nor equal to the string
-    "<code>XSLT-compat</code>", or if the token's system identifier
-    is not missing, then there is a <a href=#parse-error>parse
-    error</a>. Conformance checkers may, instead of reporting this
-    error, switch to a conformance checking mode for another language
-    (e.g. based on the DOCTYPE token a conformance checker could
-    recognize that the document is an HTML4-era document, and defer to
-    an HTML4 conformance checker.)</p>
+    "<code>XSLT-compat</code>", or if the token's system identifier is
+    not missing, then there is a <a href=#parse-error>parse error</a> (this is the
+    <dfn id=doctype-parse-error>DOCTYPE parse error</dfn>). Conformance checkers may, instead
+    of reporting this error, switch to a conformance checking mode for
+    another language (e.g. based on the DOCTYPE token a conformance
+    checker could recognize that the document is an HTML4-era
+    document, and defer to an HTML4 conformance checker.)</p>
 
     <p>Append a <code>DocumentType</code> node to the
     <code>Document</code> node, with the <code title="">name</code>
@@ -43905,7 +43906,49 @@
 };</pre><p>The <dfn id=dom-document-applets title=dom-document-applets><code>applets</code></dfn>
   attribute must return an <code><a href=#htmlcollection-0>HTMLCollection</a></code> rooted at the
   <code>Document</code> node, whose filter matches only
-  <code><a href=#the-applet-element>applet</a></code> elements.<h2 id=no><span class=secno>11 </span>Things that you can't do with this specification because
+  <code><a href=#the-applet-element>applet</a></code> elements.<h3 id=conformance-checkers-0><span class=secno>10.2 </span>Conformance checkers</h3><p>To ease the transition from HTML4 Transitional documents to the
+  language defined in <em>this</em> specification, conformance
+  checkers are encouraged to categorise errors that represent usage of
+  old obsolete features that generally have no effect (as defined
+  below) into a separate part of their report, to allow authors to
+  distinguish between likely mistakes and mere vestigial markup.<p>The following errors may be categorised as described above:<ul><li>
+
+    <p>The <a href=#doctype-parse-error>DOCTYPE parse error</a>, if the DOCTYPE token's
+    <code title="">name</code> is an <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII
+    case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">HTML</code>", and either:</p>
+
+    <ul><li>the token's public identifier is the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;4.0//EN</code>" and the
+     token's system identifier is either missing or the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd</code>", or</li>
+
+     <li>the token's public identifier is the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;4.01//EN</code>" and the
+     token's system identifier is either missing or the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd</code>", or</li>
+
+     <li>the token's public identifier is the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;XHTML&nbsp;1.0&nbsp;Strict//EN</code>"
+     and the token's system identifier is either missing or the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</code>",
+     or</li>
+
+     <li>the token's public identifier is the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">-//W3C//DTD&nbsp;XHTML&nbsp;1.1//EN</code>"
+     and the token's system identifier is either missing or the
+     <a href=#case-sensitive>case-sensitive</a> string "<code title="">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd</code>".</li>
+
+    </ul><!-- only things that trigger no-quirks mode and were valid in
+    some other spec are allowed in this list --></li>   
+
+   <li><p>The presence of a <code title=attr-img-border>border</code> attribute on an
+   <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> element if its value is the string "<code title="">0</code>".</li>
+
+   <li><p>The presence of a <code title=attr-script-language></code>
+   attribute on a <code><a href=#script>script</a></code> element if its value is an
+   <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">JavaScript</code>".</li>
+
+  </ul><h2 id=no><span class=secno>11 </span>Things that you can't do with this specification because
   they are better handled using other technologies that are further
   described herein</h2><p><em>This section is non-normative.</em><p>There are certain features that are not handled by this
   specification because a client side markup language is not the right

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