- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:01:43 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- cc: HTML Editor <www-html-editor@w3.org>, W3C HTML Mailinglist <www-html@w3.org>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Terje Bless wrote: > > Mssrs., > > in attempting to modify the W3C MarkUp Validator to more reliably detect > and report more forms of erroneous and invalid HTML, it's been brought and > has come to my attention that the SGML Declaration included with the HTML > 4.01 Recommendation appears to be at odds with both the prose of that > Recommendation and the majority of User Agent implementations. May I add my strong support to Terje's comments. The SHORTTAGS issue gives rise to numerous bug reports for the validator (because users assume SHORTTAGS should be reported as an error). Other validation services, including those at www.htmlhelp.com and valet.webthing.com, deal with this by offering users different options, but this approach is problematic because few users understand the issue. > Other parts of the SGML Declaration might also benefit from a review in > light of intent, implementations, and current practice in SGML; but these > are the issues we register that authors struggle with most often I think there is one issue here that Terje has overlooked: namely the issue of characters 128-159 in the DESCSET. The unsatisfactory status of these (and inconsistent practice concerning them) is both a validation FAQ and a source of problems on the Web at large. -- Nick Kew
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