- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 15:08:14 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Quoting Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>: > > Mark Birbeck wrote: >> The proposal you link to is very odd. :) The authors use @role in >> other situations, such as XHTML, but for some reason not in HTML. I >> think it might be caused by a problem with the W3C validator, which I >> believe was incorrectly flagging documents with extra attributes as >> being invalid (HTML says that extra attributes should just be >> ignored). This probably led them to try to find another solution, but >> ... > > Does it really say that? Pointer? Tellingly enough, it says so in a section titled "Notes on invalid documents", which defines error-handling of...*invalid* documents. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#notes-invalid-docs Unless I'm missing something, P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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