- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:04:55 +0100
- To: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Proposal: Polyglot markup documents should be validated by a Best Practice validator! In more detail: 1. Conformance checking tends to be boolean - if no errors, then no message - validator is silent. 2. Best practise checking, however, like Polyglot Markup checking, is by by nature an extra level of conformance. Thus a "no errors" message would be too little. 3. Best Practice conformance checkers should therefore present the result as a list and as "degree of conformance". Some good practises (like redundant encoding declaration), should lead to "extra points" and thus be considered as "more than conformance", from Polyglot Markup’s point of view. Primary benefits: A) that polyglot conformance-checking would become of value also for those that don’t aim for full polyglot conformance, which in turn could broaden the interest within the HTMLwg as well; B) that polyglot conformance-checking could be performed in the same fashion and along the same scala regardless of the media type of the checked doc (text/html vs application/xhtml+xml). EXAMPLE: polyglot validation could be offered in the form of an "Show polyglot report" option, similar to the "Show Image Report" option of validator.nu. How does this idea sound to the "Polyglot community"? Would this be worth filing a bug for? And against what should I file it? And what do the "validation community", especially Henri and Mike, think? -- leif halvard silli
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