- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:03:28 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- CC: Mike Ratcliffe <mratcliffe@mozilla.com>, www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2013-04-06 22:50, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: > >> -- it's just that the validator source is not yet up to date with the >> spec. > > So what is "the spec" that the validator purports to check against? It > sounds like it is anything that the authors of the validator regard as > "the spec" today. > > This would mean that a given document, unchanged, may be "valid" by the > validator's judgment today and "invalid" tomorrow, or later this day. That exact point was made, rather more verbosely, by myself on 24/03/2013 17:45 [1]. I have been unable to locate any reply. Philip Taylor -------- [1] >> The validator tracks the latest available version of HTML, along with >> relevant extension specifications. > > Then that rather defeats the whole purpose of validation, does it not ? > Given that the HTML 5 cadre, in their infinite wisdom, saw fit to > eliminate any indication of the /version/ of HTML to which an HTML 5 > document claims to conform, leaving only the vestigial and inherently > meaningless <!DOCTYPE HTML>, then an HTML 5 document that is valid today > may, if your definition of the role of the W3C validator is to be > accepted, be invalid tomorrow, and valid again the day after as the > HTML 5.1 Nightly Editor's Draft waxes and wanes with the tide, the > phase of the moon and the prevailing wind direction. You may just as > well replace the present validator with a one-line program that simply > emits the word "Maybe" -- it would be just about as much use. > > Philip Taylor
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