- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:06:13 -0600
- To: Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>
- Cc: <public-pubrules-comments@w3.org>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl> wrote: > > Recently, I noticed HTML5 errors in a draft REC document that validated fine a few weeks ago. I sent mail to <www-validator@w3.org> [1]. It turns out that it was a conscious decision to generate an error for this feature (for stylistic reasons), despite the fact that it is fine according to the HTML5 spec. > > If this becomes normal practice, then HTML validation as part of pubrules is problematic. I suggest this gets resolved within W3C. Either the Webmaster should not complain to chairs/editors about validator bugs or the validator should flag only real errors. > > Note: Michael Smith (cc) suggested to me, that I can tell the Webmaster to ignore these bugs. But how can I know as chair or editor which bugs are not real bugs? Other people are likely to run into exactly the same problem, and will be unaware it poses no pubrules problem. > > Thanks in advance for resolving this, Hi Guus, Thanks for making use of the new list! :) Let me look into this and get back to you. Ian > > Guus Schreiber > RDF WG co-chair > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2014Feb/0005.html > > > -- Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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