- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 08:18:18 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
- CC: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
On 05/19/2012 04:01 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2012-05-19 09:43, Daniel Glazman wrote: >> ... >>> Do you have any opinion or knowledge of what other tool vendors might >>> do under this same circumstance? >> >> In short, you're asking tool vendors to remove the only hint in the >> markup that will let the viewer of the source of a given page know that >> the page was created by their tool?-) Honestly, no, I don't want to >> remove that and I suspect other editing tool vendors will have the >> same opinion, at first glance. The HTML WG will have to be extremely >> persuasive to change that opinion, IMHO... >> And I don't see why it should have to be persuasive. HTML5 is here to >> make html grow on the basis on common practice. Common practice is that >> the generator meta tag is used w/o constraints at this time. Adding >> constraints to it seems to me contrary to the design of html5 and the >> needs of the industry. >> ... > > Absolutely. I use the generator information to embed version information > (which version of my XSLT code, and run by which XSLT processor); this > is extremely useful when trying to find out where problems in a > generated page come from. > > I do not plan to change this; even if this means that no alt checking > will take place in the future. In case anybody missed it, these are statements by authors, and can certainly be cited by request to reopen based on new information. > Best regards, Julian - Sam Ruby
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