- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:28:56 +0100
- To: "Paul McKeown (Tiscali)" <ppjmckeown@tiscali.co.uk>
- CC: www-validator-css@w3.org
Dear Paul -- May I respectfully suggest that your request that the validator be amended will be looked upon with far greater interest if you adduce the specification as supporting evidence rather than browser behaviour ? You have previously pointed out that explicit widths for floats are not required in CSS 2.1, and (IMHO) such an argument will carry far more weight than one based on empirical observation. The validator's sole purpose is to flag what is, and what is not, conformant, and specifically /not/ to flag what might cause problems in one or more browsers. Philip TAYLOR -------- Paul McKeown (Tiscali) wrote: > Is there any chance this fault will be corrected some time soon? > This incorrect warning is getting under my collar. > As to your correspondent who said that that some browsers couldn't cope > unless widths were declared, I've now carried out a reasonably > comprehensive survey and the only real-world browser that I could find > that is affected was IE/Mac, but IE/Mac is now almost extinct. > Regards, etc. > > > >
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