- From: Tony Rogers <tony@gonk.net>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:21:48 -0500
- To: <www-validator-css@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <20040207052229.B32B88802DB@egp.w3.org>
First of all, thanks for your fantastic service to the online community by offering markup and CSS validators. Secondly, please fix this bug in the CSS validator I discovered when reading an article on A List Apart.com: Thousands of correctly authored CSS layouts are wrongly declared invalid because of a <http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0204b.shtml> bug in the W3C's CSS validator. The bug affects CSS layouts that employ the box model hack to compensate for incorrect CSS support in the old versions of Internet Explorers for Windows used by hundreds of millions of consumers. Although CSS2 permits the method, the validator chokes on it instead of merely issuing a warning. First reported 2.5 years ago, the bug has yet to be corrected. Every hour of the day, some developer writes a blog post lamenting a bug in a commercial browser and demanding that the manufacturer fix it. If we expect standards compliance of browser makers, we should ask no less of the people who create the standards. Please heed the voices between the first report of this bug and today. We're all out for the same goal--standards-compliant websites. Help us bring that future about by correcting this long-overdue bug. -- Tony (tony@gonk.net) New! Stronger! Faster! Sexier! tony dot gonk version 2.0 : http://tony.gonk.net <http://tony.gonk.net/>
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