- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:40:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, David Morris wrote: > > Having invalid content of other forms noted as well would enable better > overall quality. This isn't a particularly new idea; the main problem with it is that the indicator would basically be always showing. Some _conservative_ estimates put the number of pages with *syntax errors alone* in the 90% range. If you add things like Content-Type errors, other HTTP problems, attribute value errors, CSS errors, scripting errors, etc, the number is likely so close to 100% that frankly the user will just wonder why his browser is sad all the time. (It would be interesting to see if anyone could actually find a Web page with more than 10kb of total content that is not in any way affiliated with the person who found it and that had absolutely no errors of any kind. I'm not convinced there are any.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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