[Bug 5992] Validator ignores HTML5 encoding declaration

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5992





--- Comment #6 from Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>  2009-03-22 22:15:21 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> I think problems like this are going to be never ending, therefore I think the
> W3C should use the validator.nu as for the "front end" of its validation
> service. Has this been considered before?

This is getting a little OT and would probably be best on the validator list,
but yes, this has been considered. 

The validator.nu engine is a wonderful piece of software, in many ways superior
to the other engines which validator.w3.org uses. However, IMHO validator.nu is
neither stable enough (see e.g
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2009Mar/0037.html ) nor
flexible enough (limited number of profiles, no DTD support for legacy HTML,
etc) nor usable enough (bare bone UI and limited message explanations, no file
upload, no direct input, etc) to simply "be" the sole and front engine on
validator.w3.org. 

I am quite certain that at this point, having validator.w3.org be a frontend
for multiple engines, including OpenSP for DTD and validator.nu for html5 and
other applications, is the most desirable architecture.


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