- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:52:57 +0300
- To: <www-validator-css@w3.org>
David Dorward wrote: >> The link that the site gave me: >> >> http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnbr4mm.co.uk%2F7316573%2F > > Another one? > > A lot of people don't seem to understand the difference between a URI > and a fragment of HTML. So it seems. Even _answers_ to people's question about this on the list confuse things. A URL is not a link. (Talking about URIs is just pointless; it serves no other purpose than confusion among normal people.) And a link is not just "a fragment of HTML" but an HTML element. > Can the system switch to ; (as per > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 ) which will > hopefully put an end to these issues? That would generate additional confusion, since the ";" convention, no matter how wise as such, did not become widely accepted. Mentioning it, or maybe even using it, could make people try to use it between parameters in the > 99 % of cases where it just doesn't work. A simple way to put an end to these issues, as well as solving many other problems as well, would be to stop telling authors about validation icons and validation links. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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