- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:52:45 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
Hi Henri, Henri Sivonen wrote > when invoked the way the markup generator developers expect the > people who evaluate quality the generators to invoke the validator* > (i.e. with defalut settings). Then this is an education problem not a spec problem. The validator could help in this effort if we let it. Hiding results fosters ignorance. > This scenario has been stated again and again ever since 2007. It's > pretty frustrating that the scenario is still being misunderstood. I am sorry that you are frustrated Henri. > This won't work, How do we know it won't work unless we try it? > because people who evaluate the quality of markup > generators can[not] be trusted to do so only in the "Generator > Developers" mode. It doesn't matter if running a validator with the > default setting on the output of a generator is the wrong way to > evaluate the quality of the generator. What do you base this on? Do you have evidence that your customers are untrustworthy? Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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