- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:26:19 -0500
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 03:16 -0400, Doug Schepers wrote: [...] > However, it cannot gracefully address all the situations in which strict > parsing is an advantage: > > * For authoring, it is often useful to know when you have validity or > well-formedness errors, which helps debug script and CSS, and doing this > on the fly in the browser is faster and easier while developing than > reiterative validation with a separate tool; for that case, I still prefer a toggle on the browser (not in the document) that says "this is my web site; show me all the errors". My understanding is that DTDs agree with the content in <1% of documents, and this sort of flag-at-the-top attribute is subject to the same risks as DTDs: a document was matched to its DTD at some point in its life, but then somebody copy-and-pasted some advertising markup or added a comments box or the like. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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