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Re: Bad validator error

From: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:48:15 +0100
Message-ID: <4E7CAA3F.8060802@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
To: Joe Java <cop3252@yahoo.com>
CC: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org> 


Joe Java wrote:

> Allowing implicit closing of elements was a bad idea from the start.

Agreed.

> I am stunned that issuing warnings for this is not automatic for the
> validator.    Perhaps issuing warnings for any implicitly closed element
> should be done for all HTML5 documents.

Ambivalent.

Philip Taylor
Received on Friday, 23 September 2011 15:48:55 GMT

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