- From: Michel Donais <webmaster@micheldonais.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:10:48 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org
I am working very hard on one of my sites to have a 100% valid xhtml page. My big problem is with vendor's code. For example, if I want to add Google AdSense, it will add <img SRC tags that trips out the validator. Another example, if I want to use webrings service, it adds up a long and nasty >1.4K line of code I must copy-paste to my page. Again, there are many tags that will never validate. These are 100% not under my control and other than complaining to the vendor saying I should be able to get proper encoding for my doctype, there is nothing I can really do. I can't change the code because it would break my contract. This is not covered in the FAQ nor docs. What I propose is to have a tag I could use for W3C validator that would ask it to totally skip a section, with a reason. For example: <body> <h1>My part</h1> <!--VALIDATOR:Skip; Reason: Google AdSense Code--> .... snip ... <!--VALIDATOR:Resume--> <h1>My 2nd part</h1> </body> .... this would entirely skip that part of code as if it wasn't existing and it wouldn't fail my page. However, it would add a "Warning" flag saying this section was skipped along with the reason and lines skipped. Philosophically, I am against that idea too because the validation is all white or black, it works or not, it follows standard or not ... and it gives place to abuse. But then I haven't found a way to solve my problem, "removing code", "putting it in a separate page", "complaining to vendor", "changing code" are not my cup of tea. Any thoughts? Thanks Mike
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