- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:18:27 +0100
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 30 Aug 2007, at 23:24, Dan Connolly wrote: > > The draft says: > > "Conformance checkers are exempt from detecting errors that require > interpretation of the author's intent for example, while a document is > non-conforming if the content of a blockquote element is not a quote, > conformance checkers do not have to check that blockquote elements > only > contain quoted material" > > I don't think the HTML marketplace is well-served by > a notion of conformance that depends on author's intent. > Please change the draft so that document conformance does not > depend on author's intent at all. This makes it impossible to require semantic elements to be used for their semantics. This would allow me to do something like <h1>This is nice large text, which isn't a header</h1> in a conformant HTML 5 document. We need to require things like this, even if it is impossible to check these electronically. - Geoffrey Sneddon
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