- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:30:46 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Cc: niko.holopainen@lomaosake.fi
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, David Dorward wrote: > Validation, in the context of (X)HTML, refers specifically to its > conformance to the DTD. The width and height attributes are distinctly > optional. This is not a validation error. Quite right, and in practical terms "CSE Validator" is just wrong in its claim that those attributes would always be needed or useful; they may even cause damage when the ALT text is long as compared with the image dimensions. On the other hand, if you wish to make sure you use those attributes for all images (which is very sensible e.g. for an image gallery, since it speeds up rendering), you can use a customized DTD where you declare those attributes as REQUIRED. > I'm not aware of any license restriction on the images provided by the > validation service which demand they only be included using the > specific (X)HTML the service outputs. As far as I remember, the license only requires that the image be made a link to the validation service and that it be used only when the page actually validates, which is very often not the case - and this is one of the many reasons for abhorring the use of such icons. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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