- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:03:43 +0300
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Larry Masinter wrote: > Conformance checks can use a version indicator (doctype for example) > to determine which conservative advice should be applied. Having an in-band version indicator for conformance checking makes the following unwritten assumptions: * It's appropriate for a person opting to target an older "version" not to see more up-to-date advice. (Surely newer advice should be assumed to be better informed and, thus, better advice.) * If the person running a conformance checker and the person producing the markup are different people (or the same person at different times), the markup producer should choose the checker target "version"--not the person invoking the checker. Have you compared the model with an in-band spec version number based version indicator against the following models? * The user of the conformance checker choosing the validation target (i.e. out-of-band indication of the wanted profile). * The user of an editor that embeds a conformance checker using product-specific in-band syntax (consider the Emacs mode line) to communicate the validation target, and the target choice may be more granular than W3C spec versions (making the in-band indicator non- interoperable). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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