Re: HTML5 Authoring Conformance Study

On 3/22/10, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>> I think those are good questions. I am personally more interested in
>> asking
>> them about specific requirements than in general form. It seemed like
>> Aryeh
>> at least felt that there may be good reasons for conformance requirements
>> besides interoperability, namely helping the author by spotting likely
>> mistakes, and user vigilance for such issues as nonstandard behavior.
>
> Discussion here is mostly focusing on validators as lint-like tools,
> to help authors (or possibly users) in some concrete way.  I think
> there are at least two other reasons

Some more reasons can be found in "Why Validate?"
http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html

Best Regards,
Laura

-- 
Laura L. Carlson

Received on Monday, 22 March 2010 23:35:00 UTC