Re: validity levels

Johannes Koch wrote:
> 
> Shadi Abou-Zahra schrieb:
>> Beware, some (evaluation) tools misuse their "warning" flags to mean 
>> "conditional pass" (as in "further manual checking needed" or such). 
>> In EARL these should be "cannotTell" (or subclasses thereof).
>>
>> Similarly, many other "warning" should actually be subclasses of 
>> "pass". For example "feature X is valid according to the CSS 
>> specification but not supported by browser Y" is actually a pass.
> 
> Yep, that's what I meant. Should we (evaluation tool creators) subclass 
> these for use in our application? Or do we want to subclass them in EARL?

Maybe the EARL 1.0 Guide can suggest a set of subclassed values?

Regards,
   Shadi


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