- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:53:46 +0300
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 15, 2009, at 15:48, Sam Ruby wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Jun 13, 2009, at 00:08, John Foliot wrote: >>> Which brings *me* back to my ongoing question: why should we care >>> about >>> validity (conformance)? >> You should care about running a validator, because it points out >> mistakes you didn't intend to make and, thus, helps you find >> mistakes that would otherwise be slower (i.e. more expensive) to >> spot. > > I operate a validator for another (and related) specification, so I > definitely know where you are coming from, but taking a look at this: > > http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F > > Noting that the last six errors relate to the font element, let me > ask: how does this help "you find mistakes that would otherwise be > slower (i.e. more expensive) to spot"? It probably doesn't, but I've avoided simply checking in code that violates the spec, because I think having a normative conformance definition is valuable in order to foster toolchains where both generator parts and checker parts have the same notion of what's OK. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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