Re: [ANN] W3C Markup Validator 0.6.5 Beta #1 - "Zeldman Made Us Do It!" - Is Released! from Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] on 2003-08-29 (www-validator@w3.org from August 2003)

From: Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:21:26 +0100
To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3F4F3736.2DB01776@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Terje Bless wrote:

[long snip]

> >It's not just "complaining". It's claiming that a valid document is
> >invalid. And this is apparently intentional. Hence, it does not even try
> >to be a validator any more.
> 
> That does not follow; neither from the argument nor from the observed
> behaviour. 

With respect, it /does/ follow : this is the primary diagnostic
which results from validating Jukka's page (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/)
using http://validator.w3.org:8001/

	This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

which is clearly a fallacious and extremely misleading statement.

Philip Taylor, RHBNC

Received on Friday, 29 August 2003 07:24:02 UTC