- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:22:48 +0100
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org, Håkon Lie <howcome@opera.com>
Terje Bless wrote: >> It seems to me that it would be easy using the media type to direct files >> to the correct validator. As it is this message is misleading because the >> W3C validating service does support CSS. > > While there is, obviously, a W3C CSS validator, the W3C Markup Validation > Service does not, for obvious reasons, support checking CSS. I don't follow the "for obvious reasons". validator.w3.org could very easily distinguish the media type and forward it to the correct parser. I don't see why the user need to be aware of different validators when it is so easy to automatically distinguish which one is needed. > Opera ASA (howcome) has also indicated that they do not wish to add further > complexities to their browser's code in this area. Why make all clients upgrade whenever W3C adds a new validator, when it only needs to be done once at the server? > Suggestions for how to improve this situation would be most welcome, of course. Do a switch on the media type is the obvious answer. Best wishes, Steven Pemberton
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