- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:28:31 +0100
- To: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- CC: W3C Validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>, www-html@w3.org
Sorry for the delay in responding to this, but it is only on re-reading that I noticed what appears to be a very significant statement "buried in the small print" : Olivier Thereaux wrote: [...] > One of the ideas behind releasing such a library is to use it as a > component in the W3C Markup Validator - as part of a deliberate strategy > to make that tool less of a formal validator, and more useful for Web > authors -. This concerns me greatly. The validator is a very important tool, and a great part of its strength is that it "does exactly what it says on the tin". Any attempt to either dilute or extend that seems to me to be misplaced. The validator should remain a validator, pure and simple. By all means introduce a new "Web author useful" suite of tools, of which the validator is just one, but please please please don't try to make the validator a general work horse (hammer) rather than a precision tool (scalpel). Philip TAYLOR
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