- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:44:59 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > So while the web may one day contain many documents that get the HTML5 > conformance checker "stamp of approval" It will actually be littered > with non conforming HTML5 documents.. This is already the case even with machine-checkable conformance criteria today. The HTML4 validator on validator.w3.org issues "stamps of approval" even for pages that are non-conforming for a wide variety of errors, for example href="" attributes with syntactically invalid URIs. And even if that was fixed, it wouldn't check that the document uses elements in a conforming way (e.g. that <table> elements aren't used for layout, which is invalid in HTML4, or that <h1> elements are used for the correct outline level, or that table cells don't overlap). Futhermore, even if we required the alt="" attribute, we would _still_ not check the conformance of the alt attribute -- there is no way to tell, from a conformance checker, whether the alt="" value is appropriate or not. So this is unrelated to whether alt="" is required in all cases or not. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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