Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, 2007-12-06 00:21 -0500: > If the answer to the question of "why does the html5 conformance checker > produce this message?" is "because the spec says so"; and the answer to "why > does the spec say so" is "because previous specs said so"; and the > "solution" in many cases is to simply add back in "noise" <div> tags, then > this non-answer coupled with the unfriendliness of the conformance checker > messages (something I have great sympathy for as it is often very hard when > faced with bad input and complicated/confusing specs to make correct and > simple suggestions) coupled with the sheer number of messages produced > coupled with the perceived "make-workness" of the answer will cause many > people to not bother. We had some discussion about that on IRC yesterday, with sort of a similar comment from Philip Taylor: http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/html-wg/20071205#l-343 There are far more significant errors on most web pages, so perhaps more benefit would come from a conformance checker that people will use more often because it doesn't complain at them so much about minor things with little practical benefit, rather than a conformance checker which flags more issues and drives away more users. -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/ http://sideshowbarker.net/
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