- From: Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:12:59 -0400
- To: "olivier Thereaux" <ot@w3.org>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi, olivier.. Just tried to leave a comment over at your article and received a "Comment Submission Error" notice that I had been posting too much in a short amount of time.. Whoopsie.. If this is not a technical glitch and is indeed something masked as coming from me, it's not, and I would *LOVE* to know what IP address they're coming from if something is occurring.. :) That aside, attached is the comment I was leaving for you.. Never know.. :) Peace.. Cindy - :: - http://CindySueCausey.blogspot.com Georgia Voices That Count, 2005 Talking Rock, GA, USA ----------- COMMENT RE "SAXing up the Markup Validator" ----------- Cindy Sue Causey ButterflyBytes@gmail.com http://CindySueCausey.blogspot.com Hi, olivier.. This was great.. Enjoy when the human side comes across in things this technical.. :) With respect to where you said: 'Some users of the validator will be puzzled to see their once-validating documents now rejected by the validator. It is a natural reaction, particularly from users who tend to consider the validator as a "reference", forgetful that any software may have bugs, ignoring the too-often-seen note that "the validator's XML support has some limitations"' A few weeks ago, recognized myself that I hadn't barely noticed that "support" statement during all these years I've been using the Validator.. That observation, though, immediately brought to mind to wonder how many *do* miss it and then end up posting questions on the various related listservs.. Tried to come up with options that might help make those kinds of statements *pop* to individuals like myself who focus, zero in on one aspect of something, thus successfully completely blocking out everything else.. Only things that immediately come to mind are changing the color(s) (of the statement only) regularly.. A pain, yes.. Or.. Maybe someone could design a non-intrusive once-a-session toggle that appears immediately adjacent to the submit button then disappears into the sunset the rest of the time, the toggle being to accept that the user, yes, accepts whatever limitation statement is currently at hand.. As always, just thinking out loud in case it inspires another's recollections of anything else more appropriate.. Peace and best wishes.. :) On 3/28/07, olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> wrote: > > There is a new section in the QA weblog [1] for rough, less polished > little writeups about bugs, design issues and so on in the tools we > develop at W3C. The section is called "Bugs Life" > [1] http://www.w3.org/QA/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/w3cqa_news/bugs_life/ > > The first little article is noodling about validation and > conformance, a topic I think may be of interest to this list. > > * SAXing up the Markup Validator: from Validator to Conformance Checker < snip > > http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/03/validation_to_conformance.html > > Your thoughts (as comments on the article or here in the mailing- > list) much welcome.
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