- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:31:43 +0100
- To: gonchuki <gonchuki@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
gonchuki wrote: > A conformance tool could at least check the number of DOM nodes inside > table cells and raise a warning if above certain number. I mean, may > be a span or two are ok for visual formatting, but above that > threshold the conformance tool should raise a warning telling the > author to check that tables are not used for layout. On balance, I think a toning down is justified. If a conformance criterion is not amenable to pass/fail validation, it should be re-expressed as a desideratum, with perhaps a (shared) footnote to the effect that it may be upgraded from "deprecated" to "disallowed" when AI has developed to the point at which its usage can be reliably detected by a programmable validator. Philip TAYLOR
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