- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:41:56 +0900
- To: Stephanie Troeth <steph@unadorned.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Steph, hi all, On Mar 22, 2007, at 05:05 , Stephanie Troeth wrote: > Perhaps what is required for validation of snippets, is to > automatically wrap the contents of the input with a Doctype (that > the user chooses), dummy head content, <html> and <body> wrapper > tags for this option? As I wrote in an earlier reply, I think you are pointing out a real- world need. Others have accurately pointed out that it's certainly difficult to validate snippets outside of their context. Based on this, a potential solution I could think of is illustrated at http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/detailed.html#validate-by-input Using scripting to pre-fill the textarea with basic (X)html document structure isn't the same thing as validating snippets. Obviously. But I think it does fill a few roles: * allowing people to validate bits of HTML, without having to type a complete HTML document * does not have to "guess" where in the context of the document the snippet is supposed to be (which a validate-snippet feature would have to do). Granted, for some levels of cluelessness this is not helping, e.g if someone overlooks the "Your HTML content here" note and puts HTML in a random location. * showing what a proper document structure is... a copy-paste away * last but not least, it happens to be much easier to implement :) Thoughts? -- olivier
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