- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:36:26 -0500
- To: nir@nirdagan.com (Nir Dagan), w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Yes, it's true that the validator shouldn't be criticized for being "overly strict", but there's another point they also make, that the error messages are cryptic: When tag attributes aren't surrounded by quotes, W3C reports "An attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name characters." Ampersands in URLs (technically a no-no, though quite common) are met with cryptic "General entity not defined" reports. Len At 11:25 AM 11/14/98 GMT, Nir Dagan wrote: >I think we should very well explain to the public >why these guys are wrong: > >http://webbuilder.netscape.com/Authoring/HtmlValid/ss06.html > >To make a long story short, they claim that real validators are >bad because they find errors that other "validators" let them get >away with. They say its bad because "both" Netscape and >explorer "support" these errors (invalid nestings, not escaped >ampresands in URLs, unquoted attributes etc.). > >The bottom line is that they recommend using >mediocre checkers and not to use validators. > >Regards, > >Nir Dagan, Ph.D. >http://www.nirdagan.com >mailto:nir@nirdagan.com > >"There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." >-- A. Einstein > > > ------- Leonard R. Kasday Institute on Disabilities/UAP at Temple University, Philadelphia PA email: kasday@acm.org telephone: (215} 204 2247
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