- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:38:55 +0200
- To: cirrus <cirrus@linuxgames.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* cirrus wrote: >I would have thought it would suffice to say something like: > >The page you just came from conforms to current technical standards for >webpages. An automated test was run before this text was displayed to >confirm this. It does not. The HTML Validator tests only for a small aspect of HTML conformance. It will not detect various formal errors (<img width=foo ...> in HTML or <p><a ...><span><a ...>...</a></span></a></p> in XHTML) or improper use of language elements (<font> for headings). It is not even meant to test for compliance with WAI, DOM, CSS, HTTP, etc. If you like to have some seal of approval and a document which explains its meaning it would be a seal of self-approval and the document would explicitly state that the author of the referring document *claims* to be conforming to the standards, not that W3C makes any confirmation of this claim. I do not think that the MarkUp Validator should provide such material as such a general claim is outside the scope of the validator. I do neither think that any W3C activity should produce and publish such material. It's just asking for trouble. The WaSP is a better organization for this kind of service and they already provide much of the requested material. If their material is insufficient, talk to them or other interested parties over at <public-evangelist@w3.org>. FWIW, my new digital camera claims conformance to EN60950, EN55022 (1998, class B), EN55024 (1998), EN61000-3-2 (1995 + A1: 1998 + A2: 1998) in conformance with EMC guidelines (89/336/EEC, 92/31/EEC, and 93/68/EEC) and low voltage guideline 73/23/EEC on page 3 of the users manual. I do not understand what this is about nor do I feel interested enough to find it out. I do not even feel better now that I know my camera adhers to some standards. In fact, I didn't even notice any of these claims when looking at the manual the first time.
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