- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:09:29 +0200
- To: "''" <brewhaha@home.ecn.ab.ca>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* '' wrote:
> I wouldn't make enough contributions to make it worthwhile to
>subscribe to this list. The problem I'm having is that Gerald Oskoboiny's
>validator sent me utf-8, which my browser doesn't support.
Which browser? Horrible browser!
> Uh. and by the way. You offer two menus that say "detect
>automatically" by default. Don't ask the question if you can make
>people write better HTML. encourage DOCTYPE declarations, BUT.
>
> And this is a big BUT. Don't deprecate old features.
The validator doesn't, specifications do.
>Nothing is
>worse than forcing people to upgrade their web pages for browsers that
>don't support old features. Take the <LINK rev=made ...> tag for instance.
>It would be nice if pages were required to provide a return address, even
>if it's bogus@dev.nul.
This is not a job for the validator, it just says the document is valid
or it isn't.
>The <center> tag was deprecated. What for?
CSS, see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
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