Re: Comparing conformance requirements against real-world docs

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > 
> > We don't support <noframes> in HTML5, since frame support is required 
> > (and simultaneously, we make them non-conforming). But I've downplayed 
> > this error.
> 
> I don't see why it's useful to downplay <noframes>...
> 
> Since <noframes> presumably only occurs on frameset pages in the real world,
> the validator output of validating a frameset page with <noframes> in
> Validator.nu is currently:
> 
>   1. Error: Element frameset not allowed as child of element html in this
>      context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
> 
>   2. Error: Element noframes not allowed as child of element html in this
>      context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
> 
>   3. Error: Required children missing from element html.
> 
> 
> Having <noframes> as a "downplayed error" means it would be moved to a
> separate section, so it would look like this maybe:
> 
> 
>   1. Error: Element frameset not allowed as child of element html in this
>      context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
> 
>   2. Error: Required children missing from element html.
> 
> 
>   *Minor errors*
> 
>   These are errors for old legacy features that normally don't have any
>   effect and so if you're writing a new document you shouldn't use these
>   but if you're upgrading an old document to HTML5 you can probably
>   ignore these, but the document still won't be valid HTML5.
> 
>   1. Minor error: Element noframes not allowed as child of element html in
> this
>      context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
> 
> 
> ...which seems not more useful at all; if one wanted to improve what it has
> today, it would rather say something like:
> 
>   1. Fatal error: Frameset pages are not valid HTML5. You should change
>      your site structure to not use framesets or choose the HTML 4.01
>      Frameset schema instead.
> 
> 
> So in conclusion I'd suggest to remove <noframes> from the list of 
> errors that are "downplayed".

Ok, I've removed it from the downplayed list.

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