- From: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 23:13:25 +0100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi David, > In that case the aforementioned script would pass the validator since > the "Does the browser support Flash" test would fail, so it wouldn't > insert the invalid content. Good point, but one I can live with. The validator could even take Opera's approach, but instead of pretending to be the most dominant browser, masquerade as the most standards compliant at any given time. > > More expensive than the recursion required to create a valid document > > tree? > > Yes. You would have to: > (a) process multiple files Linearly. > (b) process the JavaScript Which basically involves a few DOM methods (createElement and friends), and consider that these may be applied conditionally. I would describe that as trivial. > (c) create multiple DOM trees then validate each one. No; the same DOM, validated incrementally. Best regards, Gez -- _____________________________ Supplement your vitamins http://juicystudio.com
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