"Fall -back" versus "tentative validation" (Was Re: [ANN] 0.6.2 Beta #1 of the W3C Markup Validator)

Nicolas, all.

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 16:43 Europe/Budapest, Nicolas Roeser 
wrote:
>> A second large(ish) change in this version is the addion of a 
>> "fallback"
>> modifer option for the DOCTYPE and Charset Override functions. With 
>> the
>> Fallback option selected the Override function changes to a Fallback 
>> such that
>> instead of forcibly overriding an existing DOCTYPE or Charset label, 
>> the
>> Validator will insert the selected DOCTYPE/Charset if, and _only_ if, 
>> one did
>> not allready exist in the document.
>
> I think the fallback feature may come handy for many people who
> produce/have sites without a DOCTYPE/charset declared.

Hmm for this type of users I believe what's handy is the other new 
feature (tentative validation with a default charset/doctype in the 
absence of proper declaration), whereas Fallback is probably more 
interesting for tools interacting with the validator.

-- 
Olivier