RE: Help Wanted: Test Cases for "Fussy" Mode

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>[mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Terje Bless
>Sent: Sunday, 31 August 2003 2:36 AM
>To: W3C Validator
>Subject: Help Wanted: Test Cases for "Fussy" Mode
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>While feedback on the «Fussy» parse mode has been generally 
>positive — with a
>few notable exceptions :-) — it seems clear that it is currently 
>excessively,
>uhm, «Fussy».
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>To help us better fine-tune this, I would ask that anyone with a 
>particularly
>good example of cases where «Fussy» mode is excessively fussy — 
>e.g. produces
>a gazillion errors instead of one or two, or complains of things 
>that are not
>really problems under any circumstances — let us know. Please, if 
>possible,
>reduce your examples to a minimal test case (it reduces the time 
>we have to
>spend on doing it) and indicate whether we may include your example in our
>internal test suite.
>
>The «canonical» example right now, of beeing excessively fussy, is a long
>table without a <tbody> element (which gets an error for every 
>single <tr>).
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>Also welcome would be examples of where «Fussy» mode actually 
>does its job;
>namely catches errors that would normally have been overlooked.
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FRANKI:

How about just making it a "helpful suggestions" checkbox.
Since thats to the point, newbie friendly, and positive in feeling.

rgds

Franki

Received on Saturday, 30 August 2003 22:12:25 UTC