- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:56:58 +0900
- To: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Dear Roberto, On Oct 31, 2006, at 18:38 , Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG wrote: > Why now is less important for W3C to show the outline of an HTML page? Please don't write such false and sensationalistic claim without proof, or without actually researching the facts. Have you read the message quoted in the bug discussion? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2006Oct/0084 If you have, you will know that: * the validator is migrating to a new library, which will have big benefits for validation. * One side effect of this switch is the loss of the outline feature in the validator. * however, we have a tool that does outlining, and more, and better: http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html For the reasons above, I am reluctant to spend coding time trying to put the outline feature back in the validator - I'd rather spend our limited resources on making a better validator. The tool is also open source, and I have seen no developer jumping in and proposing to help with coding the feature back. As a mid-term plan, we are working on the "Unicorn" tool, a universal checker that aggregates observations from different tools. In that perspective, it makes more sense to have separate tools that do one thing and do it well, rather than try to cram every and any feature into the markup validator, at the expense of its main task. Thank you, -- olivier
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