- From: Carlos A Velasco <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:20:35 +0200
- To: Helder Ferreira <hfilipe@fe.up.pt>
- Cc: David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Helder, On 04/22/2004 11:01 AM, Helder Ferreira wrote: >>So what do you do with (maybe even a majority of sites) which don't >>have the document type declaration? Validate to loose 4 dtd? >> Or be strict SGML and fail it because it doesn't have the declaration. >> >>regards DaveP >> > > > In my opinion, the validation tool should fail, pointing out that a > declaration is missing, and should give an example of what the webmaster > should include! A link to W3C links that explain HTML and XHTML declarations > should be nice too. imergo reports the missing declaration, and still validates against the default. When managing a big Web portal, it might be the case that someone has simply "forgotten" to insert the DTD in the CMS template (or even worse, insert a non-existing DTD), which is a very frequent case in our experience. > The idea should be to "force" web developpers to stick to the standards and > code web pages right. Also, the validation tool should provide explanation > and examples. And it should fail if the markup doesn't validate properly! > We agree in the fact that web developers shall stick to standards. However, it is also good to provide additional information against some user-defined default. It is not very helpful to say "Sorry, pal. You forgot the DTD. Bye!". Regards, carlos -- Dr Carlos A Velasco - mailto:Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)] http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609 Fax: +49-2241-1442609
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