- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:04:21 +0300
- To: bill kelley <bill@windhome.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
2012-06-07 20:17, bill kelley wrote: > The validator marks any attributes which used to be in the html standard, > but were removed by people with good intentions, as errors. No, a markup validator proper checks a document against its formalized syntax definition. If you want to use old features, use an old syntax definition, called Document Type Definition. > This is not a usable response as a validator. A validator has a well-defined job. If you don't want it to do that, don't use a validator. There are various heuristic or pragmatic checkers, or "linters", around. Use them if you like what *they* do. If you ask me, there is no decent linter for HTML, sadly enough, and I guess I'm too old to write one. That's why I use validators, because I know what they do and I know that they detect syntax errors in a useful way, even though there are many errors and issues that they don't, won't, and can't deal with. Yucca
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