- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 23:10:47 +0200
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Daniel Glazman, Fri, 18 May 2012 21:56:14 +0200: > Le 18/05/12 21:33, Leif Halvard Silli a écrit : >> Daniel Glazman, Fri, 18 May 2012 20:58:56 +0200: >>> Le 18/05/12 20:43, John Foliot a écrit : >> >>> Not worth a "public warning", and too great power given to chairs w/o >>> control, IMHO. >> >> As a more helpful thing talk about: What are your insights, as a >> WYSIWYG HTML generator vendor, with regard to the meta generator >> exception? > To focus back on the meta generator exception, I just do not understand > it. The meta generator was never meant to give useful information. It > has always been almost only a way for editing tool authors to insert an > advertisement for their tool in the documents created by users. > In that sense, basing any kind of rule on the presence of such a meta > tag seems to me a pretty serious conceptual error. > > Is that an answer to the question asked? It is not the dream answer, since you offer no proof that the negative effect *happens*. But if you have proof that some of your users would start to remove the meta generator because of its effect on the validator, then it would be a dream answer. Another proof of negative effect could be someone who chose to publish as HTML4 instead of HTML5 (BlueGriffon offers both options) just because image validation is poorer - and different - for HTML5 than for HTML4 ... By the way: I had a look at the HTML5 updated version of Tidy. By default, Tidy reports no errors for lack of @alt - just issues a warning - and it also doesn't auto-generate @alt text unless you ask it too. But unrelated to that, Tidy can be set to insert a meta generator which says that the file was generated/tidyed with Tidy ... A subsequent check with the validator, would then cause the page to be reported as error free. Someone could observe this "trick" and "implement" it. But I have no evidence that it is happening. -- Leif H Silli
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