- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 30 May 2002 09:13:04 -0400
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 23:59, Keith Moore wrote: > > > I would be stunned if a client whose site looked horrible in their > > preferred browser would be content with "but the W3C validator says it's > > perfect". > > almost nobody cares what the validator says, because the validator isn't > that good a predictor of how things will look to the customer. > > but if browsers told content-providers things like "I don't understand > this page, it probably looks horrible to your customers" then it would > tighten the feedback loop. If I believed that changing the messages the validator provided would have a positive effect, I would suggest it. However, my real point is that the browser is the ultimate arbiter of what works, not the validator. I don't think any level of improvement to the validator - except perhaps turning it into a browser - is going to change that. If you don't modify user-agent behavior, the feedback loop will remain limp and mostly useless. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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