- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 16:44:44 +0200
- To: mike@w3.org
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
Mike, since you are developing the experimental HTML5-compatible version of Tidy (https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5), have you considered whether to remove Tidy's ability to insert a generator string, in order to prevent the effect it has on validation of alternative text for images? Have you considered warning Tidy's user about this effect? Leif H Silli Sam Ruby, Sat, 19 May 2012 08:18:18 -0400: > 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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