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- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:42:15 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1500 ------- Comment #6 from link@pobox.com 2006-08-15 07:42 ------- (In reply to comment #5) > If you think this bug is INVALID or should be WONTFIXed, that's fine too; it > will merely further underscore the points I made on www-tag. :-) I will have to study this further, but I would initially guess this bug would then end up as effectively WONTFIX for (to put it that way) essentially the same reason as you outline on www-tag; marketshare. The Validator was modified to have this behaviour in the wake of the release of XHTML 1.0 when it became clear that XHTML 1.0 must be parsed as XML to be Valid but in practice was always served as text/html. In order to practically support XHTML 1.0, the Validator -- against my better judgement at the time, and to much wailing and gnashing of teeth -- was modified to reintroduce "sniffing" features I'd previously spent a considerable number of hours removing for the various HTML 3.2/4.01 document types. While the Validator does not take into account "marketshare" as the typical browser vendor will understand the term, the basis for the decision was evangelism (of Valid markup) and to stay relevant to the web community (rather than ride a hobby horse). In retrospect we (I) may have made the wrong decision on this. As you note, the problem has only been compounded by letting "marketshare" dictate compliance in the interrim and -- without in any way endorsing the approach taken by the WHAT WG specification -- it is probably past time for the issue to be revisited and to let the experience gained in the intervening years serve as a guide forward.
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