- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:59:07 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 03:52 PM 10/11/98 -0500, David Norris wrote: >Home Site is totally customizable. If something doesn't work the way you >need, you likely can change it. HTML Validator, Tag completion, Color >syntax-highlighting, etc are all customizable. Coding in Home Site is done >by hand, and verified to be proper HTML using the built-in CSE 3310 HTML >Validator, which you can easily modify. The problem is that the built-in validator isn't a real validator. In the SGML world, a validator checks a document against a DTD, but CSE does not do this, and the result is that some valid HTML 4.0 documents are considered invalid by CSE and some invalid HTML 4.0 documents are considered valid by CSE. The result is that it's no longer possible to simply recommend that authors validate their HTML. One now has to qualify the statement by naming real validators (such as the WDG [1] or W3C [2] validators). I've run across many authors looking for help who "validated" their documents only with CSE when validating with a real validator would have solved their problem. [1] http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ [2] http://validator.w3.org/ -- Liam Quinn
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