- From: Kalikow, Dan (RETG) <Dan.Kalikow@RETG.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:18:43 -0400
- To: "'Benedetti White, Arthur D. - CIMS-2'" <adbenedettiwhite@bpa.gov>, "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
Sometimes it's enlightening (and a bit scary) to take a file saved in .HTM format out of MS Office 2000 apps like Word or Excel and to drop it into a validating syntax-directed editor. Though I'm still learning my way around SGML/HTML/XML validation, it appears to me that when they save as HTML, these apps are not "expecting" Validating by anything other than themselves or web browsers. Cheers, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Benedetti White, Arthur D. - CIMS-2 [mailto:adbenedettiwhite@bpa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:57 AM To: 'www-amaya@w3.org' Subject: RE: error tolerance within amaya It Sounds like those people don't really know what Validation is then. -Arthur. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dave J Woolley [SMTP:DJW@bts.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999, 5:38:58 > > > no the reason is that many do not validate at all ...... > > how many people even use their spellcheckers when > > virtually every wordprocessor and mail utility has them built in! > > > This is a question of words, I think. But most > people creating a page with Front Page, will view > it with Internet Explorer, rather than putting it > onto the web there and then. It is that viewing > with IE that constitutes their validation of the > page - i.e. they are validating that it works with > their favourite browser. They may also "validate" > with Netscape to get about 90% coverage of users. > ----- End Of Original Message -----
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