Re: Colloquial Tidbits

On 16 September 2011 14:02, Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org> wrote:

>> I'm wondering how a dom inspector achieves any sort of validation Noah?
>
> Well, the DOM inspector is part-and-parcel with a JavaScript console, and other tools. So I get warnings about parse errors, or security issues and such like.

Now there's a novel (and v.valuable) addition to a definition of 'valid'?


> But other than that, I don't suppose it does. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't care about validation in the traditional sense. The way I "validate" my work is to load it up in a browser and poke at it to see if it looks and functions as I expect it to.

With todays woolly definition of a web page, "Does it look and
function as I expect it to"
is equally valid as a part of validity?

http://www.w3.org/community/colloquial/wiki/Glossary

regards






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