- From: Pierre Fortin <pfortin@SkyBest.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 13:39:55 -0400
- To: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote: > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > directly accessing the first frame at http://www.infoworld.com/pageone.html > > since Amaya only displays basic frame info unless "/pageone.html" is appended. > > Once the page displays, it is obviously very different from what Netscape or > > Mozilla present. > > The W3C validator considers this page to be seriously ill :-) :- > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoworld.com%2Fpageone.html&outline= Thanks for the pointer! > The question arises how far the very small Amaya team can go to prevent > pathalogical responses to pathalogical input. Ideally it should not > loop forever, but... ...but, this raises another question: should the validator just throw errors, or should there be a "proposed/concept" option, or second validator which takes rule-bending into account and helps evaluate future possibilities...? I'd be the last to propose a M$-like "embrace and extend" attitude; but standards don't always stop when agreed upon. Many evolve to new levels... to wit: HTML *4.0*... But; by all means, flag M$ extensions as strict violations... :^) > Hugh > hgs@dmu.ac.uk Pierre
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