- From: Klaus Birkenbihl <Klaus.Birkenbihl@w3c.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:03:49 +0200
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
To whom it concerns and who ever is in charge to fix it: this issue is still open. There is XHTML-code on the english page - HTML on the german page. Best regards, Klaus >Dear all, > >I didn' intent to send the original mail to the list. I simply >clicked "Philippe Le Hégaret & Sijtsche de Jong" at the bottom >of the validator page and reached the list. OK, here we go on: > >>At 20:26 26.06.01 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>* Klaus Birkenbihl wrote: >>>Hi Philippe, >>> >>>you offer to include >>> >>><p> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"> <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!"> </a> </p> >>> >>>into CSS validated docs. Unfortunately this is not valid XHTML. >>>(Missing end tag for <img>) >> >>Yes, and if there was <img /> it wouldn't fit for HTML documents. You >>are suggesting to propose different code samples for XHTML and HTML >>documents? > >I do not stick to an implementation my first concern is that the user >is not trapped by the following sequence: > * user calls CSS validation > * CSS validation says "hey go and validate your html first" > * user calls html validation > * validator says "great your doc is correct XHTML" > * user copies the "xhtml" validator logo into his document > * user calls CSS validation > * CSS says "great" > * user copies CSS validator logo into his document > * user publishes his document >customer calls users page: > * customer states: user claims to send valid xhtml > * customer clicks the xhtml validator logo to check ... > >Implementations: > a) a bold disclaimer "don't use this without modification for XHTML" > might work - but is not very friendly to XHTML users > b) different code samples would be easy and moderately friendly > c) if a doctype can be found a customized code sample would be luxorious > >But since "c)" would still need "b)" for stand alone CSS-Files "b)" might be >appropriate. This would also allow to conform to coding suggestions >of the standard: (HTML tag should be upper case XHTML must be lower case). > >Meanwhile the english version is conformant (only) to XHTML while the >german version supports (only) HTML. A bit more confusing ... > >Best regards, Klaus > >Btw. The CSS Validator (German Version) cannot verify itself: > > Error > Target: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html > Please, validate your XML document first! > Line 29 > Column 17 > An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xfc) was found in the element > content of the document. > >Klaus Birkenbihl >W3C Deutsches Büro >mailto:Klaus.Birkenbihl@w3c.de >http://www.w3c.de Klaus Birkenbihl W3C Deutsches Büro mailto:Klaus.Birkenbihl@w3c.de http://www.w3c.de
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