Re: Advice sought on (markup) validator's "Help and FAQ" document

Jon,

On Apr 23, 2005, at 21:16, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> Any chance of my suggestion from last year being incorporated? ;-)

I must have left that one slip, sorry.

>   Q. What does "valid" mean, and what sort of problems does the Markup
>   Validator <em>not</em> find?

I think your entry is going the right way, i.e refactoring and 
clarifying the existing [what is validation] and [Is validation some 
kind of quality control? Does "valid" mean "quality approved by W3C"?], 
but I don't think it should be added as it is, because it is still 
quite redundant with the existing entries, and the following:

>   A. HTML is an application of SGML, a generalised system for creating
>   markup languages. SGML markup languages are defined by what is known
>   as a DTD - a computer-readable description of the features of that
>   markup language.

... is probably too complicated for a high-level, newcomer-friendly FAQ 
entry.

If you have the time, could you give a look at the beginning of the 
existing FAQ / Help (latest version at 
http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/docs/help.html ) and tell me how you 
think we could reorganize it?

Thanks.
-- 
olivier

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2005 08:02:43 UTC