- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:47:57 +1000
- To: National Editor <publisher@3m7.net>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org, site-comments@w3.org
National Editor wrote: > Greetings. > > As per a response received > at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2004Oct/0015.html has > the compliance group considered having CSS documents strictly validate > standards-compliant which utilize _no tables_ in the html layout? From the linked site-comments message: # My suggestion is that W3C modifies the validation process and that NO # CSS will validate when tables are in use within the HTML docs. I certainly hope not. Tables have a legitimate purpose in HTML, but it is unfortunate that their use is abused by so many. However, it is impossible to programmatically determine whether or not a table has been used legitimately or not, so this would not be possible. Such a task would also be beyond the scope of the markup validator, which is to determine the validity of a document according to the appropriate DTD. As for the CSS validator, it does not examine any HTML markup beyond looking for references to stylesheets to validate, and would have no idea about the use of tables, let alone whether they have been used correctly. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ http://GetFirefox.com/ Rediscover the Web http://SpreadFirefox.com/ Igniting the Web
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