Re: "valid [X]HTML x.x!" icons are Evil (was Re: Thanks a lot)

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Lloyd Wood wrote:

> > <!--
> > W3C validation service <http://validator.w3.org/> results
> > Valid XHTML 1.1 as of 2001-12-16 17:34:00-04
> > -->
> 
> nice idea - but nest <> in comments?  urgh.

I just threw a quick example together; I didn't say it was the optimal
thing to do.  If you have a better suggestion, throw it out.

> and who reads comments anyway?

The authors, of course!  That's why the validation information should
go in the comments (or someplace else where the clients won't see):
clients don't *care* about that information.

-- 
James Ralston, Information Technology
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA