- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 17:52:35 +0200
- To: Nicolas Roeser <n-roeser@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Nicolas, all. On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 16:43 Europe/Budapest, Nicolas Roeser wrote: >> A second large(ish) change in this version is the addion of a >> "fallback" >> modifer option for the DOCTYPE and Charset Override functions. With >> the >> Fallback option selected the Override function changes to a Fallback >> such that >> instead of forcibly overriding an existing DOCTYPE or Charset label, >> the >> Validator will insert the selected DOCTYPE/Charset if, and _only_ if, >> one did >> not allready exist in the document. > > I think the fallback feature may come handy for many people who > produce/have sites without a DOCTYPE/charset declared. Hmm for this type of users I believe what's handy is the other new feature (tentative validation with a default charset/doctype in the absence of proper declaration), whereas Fallback is probably more interesting for tools interacting with the validator. -- Olivier
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