- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:27:10 +0900
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Lachlan, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Perhaps you could change the background colour of that heading to > yellow, add some kind of warning icon and/or change the heading to "This > Page Is Valid [VERSION] (With Warnings)". I don't mind what solution > you use, as long as it is immediately visible to someone quickly > glancing at the page. This is not a bad idea, but likely to be problematic. Some people can get extremely aggressive if they think they "deserve" the green banner and get something else. In such cases, you can argue all you want that warnings are not errors, angry people won't care. Only few of the warnings are in the "this is strictly speaking OK but very likely to cause problem" realm, mostly they are "I had to use some guessing, and if the guessing was wrong, it may twist the results, so please double-check". e.g: http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/sgml_customdtd.html For these reasons, I think we should be extremely careful with the way we make warnings prominent on otherwise valid/conforming documents. Maybe a solution would be to have [[ Result: Passed validation, 4 warning(s) ]] be less "green", or include the little warning sign? What do you think? -- olivier
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