- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:20 +0900
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Cc: Aubrey Jaffer <agj@alum.mit.edu>, www-validator@w3.org
On Sep 21, 2007, at 23:59 , David Dorward wrote: > Possibly the validator should issue a warning when it encounters > this, since it is one of the features of HTML 4 mentioned as having > limited support that authors should avoid using: http://www.w3.org/ > TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7 Ironically perhaps, I recall this was what Terje attempted to implement with "fussy parsing", which was slammed by users on this very mailing list. I think with time, people have become a little less rigid with the understanding of "validity", and now somehow accept additional tests, especially when they are so detrimental to interoperability. I can look into switching on warnings for shorttags again. -- olivier
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