Re: checklink: very nice from Lloyd Wood on 2002-11-19 (www-validator@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:57:00 +0000 (GMT)
To: Tex Texin <tex@XenCraft.com>
cc: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>, <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.43.0211191956140.14774-100000@artemis.ee.surrey.ac.uk>

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Tex Texin wrote:

> Unfortunately, at least to me, the word validator does not imply that it
> only checks against dtd rules.
> It implies to me that the checked page is valid, which can include lint
> checking.

lint has nothing to do with validity. lint flags common problems,
nothing more.

L.

<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>

Received on Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:57:16 UTC