- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 00:15:02 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Dec 5, 2007, at 21:29, Sam Ruby wrote: > But this is clearly just the start. At the present time, > html5.validator.nu conformance checking tool identifies a gross > number of errors: > > http://tinyurl.com/2wywpp > > I imagine that the errors can be grouped into three categories: > > 1) errors for which my page ought to be fixed > 2) errors for which the validator ought to be fixed Did you identify any errors that the validator reported but were not errors per current spec draft? Granted, there are a number of unfriendly messages there, but as far as I can tell, all of those point out actual errors. Even "Bad value text for attribute type on XHTML element input." is technically correct although not exactly helpful (see error class 4 below). This message is the #1 usability bug, BTW. > 3) errors for which the spec ought to be fixed > > I'm posting my early results here in the off chance that it sparks a > discussion. I identified four classes of errors: 1) meta charset in XHTML 2) wbr 3) a dangling for="q" attribute 4) lots and *lots* of cases where you have inline content where only block content is conforming. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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