- From: James Ralston <qralston+ml.www-validator@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:38:47 -0500 (EST)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>, webmaster <webmaster@domovina.net>, www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Nick Kew wrote: > Isn't the purpose of the icon to propagate the notion that > validation, or more generally standards-compliance, is a Good Thing? Yes, and it's a noble goal, but asking web authors to propagate that notion by *explicitly advertising their pages as being valid* is a horrible injustice, when the W3C darn well *knows* that a future change of theirs might invalidate countless of pages with the "valid [X]HTML x.x!" icons on them. I'd really like to see someone from the W3C comment on my original "'valid [X]HTML x.x!' icons are Evil" post. (Perhaps it's being discussed, but from my point of view, all I hear is crickets chirping...) -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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