- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:18:36 +0100
- To: QA Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
I'm about to tag Beta 3 in CVS. Below are proposed release notes. The big issue that needs discussion is the XML Output. Stay or go? I have an updated version <URL:http://mail.tj.unn.no/check?uri=www.vir.si;output=xml> that includes a Document Type Declaration and an XSLT Stylesheet (thanks to Nick). I'm more comfortable comitting to supporting this version -- allthough it's most definitely labelled "Beta"! -- considering it won't likely be very interesting to most people if I get the SOAP interface in in 0.7.0. But my "liability" on this thing is zero so y'all W3Cers are invited to "veto" it's release if you feel it necessary. I'm still somewhat ambivalent about it. The XML output has sorta just grown happenstance instead of being "designed" as such, so while I'm reasonably comfortable with it's current state, experience suggests there are pitfalls lurking in there too. Unless some discussion happens, it will be released by default! Pre-Release Notes -- still in need of some grammar and spelling love: -- cut here The following changes and new features: * The error message when the configuration file is not found is now much clearer. * The XML Output is now much improved, and nominally at Beta status. * Many spelling, captialization, and grammar fixes. * The DOCTYPE override will now replace the orginal DOCTYPE instead of always inserting it at the beginning fo the file. * Sample code in output and documentation has been updated. * More error messages now take into account whether file upload or normal processing was done. * Output layout has changed to adress usability concerns. * Many POST requests are now redirected to a GETable URL when possible. * Perl version 5.6.0 is now the minimum required version. * The jump links in output are now context sensitive. * We're now excrisiatingly up fromt about SP's limitations with XML. * More links to external resources (thanks to Liam Quinn and the WDG). * We now allow the pedantically correct /referrer as well as /referer. :-) * Many output-escaping fixes and entity reference related fixes. ID Result Summary == ========= ================================================================= 1 FIXED XHTML 1.1/Basic 1.0 missing from detailed.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0066.html 2 FIXED ISO-8859-3 mislabelled on detailed.html. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0071.html 3 FIXED Results from Advanced form are not GETable. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0069.html 5 FIXED No Revalidate button on files without doctype [...]. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0072.html 7 FIXED Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified! http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0073.html 13 FIXED Caveat about limited XML support missing. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0075.html 15 FIXED Wrong MIME type for SVG. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0083.html 16 FIXED Config filename in error message is wrong. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0089.html 17 FIXED Bad style on invalid results page. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0094.html 19 FIXED "page NOT valid" should be "page not valid". 20 FIXED "this icon" is unclear after position of icon changed. 21 FIXED Find alternate way to handle buggy CSS implementations. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0077.html 23 FIXED Missing URI/File gives bad error message. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0159.html 25 INVALID preparse() called twice per request 40 INVALID Charset defaulting behaviour. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0190.html 41 FIXED Trailing slash on /check/ breaks relative links. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0197.html 46 FIXED "would validate" too hard to spot. 47 FIXED Output refers to "Strict" for a "Transitional" file. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0070.html 57 FIXED Validator requires perl >= 5.6.0 58 FIXED Doctype override always inserts to first line 59 FIXED Jump to bar has always same links 64 FIXED Validator does not escape & properly. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Oct/0224.html -- cut here -- > I suggest you attend some sort of anger management class.... That's where you learn to upset the PHBs? -- Peter da Silva
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