- From: Jon Warbrick <jw35@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:54:52 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Terje Bless wrote: > Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > > >Just ignore what I've written before and answer me, why and for whom is > >it better if the validator refuses to validate instead of defaulting to > >the most loose document type for validation? > > "For everyone involved!" For this, and the related 'Default Character Encoding' issue, it would probably help quite a lot if the error messages that report the lack of DOCTYPE and/or Character Encoding mentioned that the Extended Interface alows you to manually specify them. Jon. -- Jon Warbrick Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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