- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:43:44 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Leif, On 4/19/11, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > Maciej, and the other chairs, >>> Was this list derived from the output >>> of actual authoring tools? Was it found by looking at real Web >>> content? In the absence of information about where this list came >>> from, it was taken to have no evidentiary value. > > The list is much longer than the one Laura provided: Wordpress, > MediaWiki, Drupal, DocBook, TextPattern. TextMate, the famous Mac text > editor, is also able to save code as HTML - thus it generates, does it > therefore need an exception? TextMate also has various WYSWIWYG (like) > extension(s). SubEthaEdit can also save page as HTML. Other text > editors probably have similar features. Have these tools asked for > lower bars? Can't they speak for themselves if they need them? Does > JDiff, which also inserts generator string, need an exception? > > The irony, considering the lowered validation bar: <meta > name="generator" content="HTML tidy"> > > All the above info has been found with http://code.Google.com and by > looking at the home pages of the different packaged and through > knowledge of the tools. It is simple to find more. I used too used Google and also checked some local apps. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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