- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:58:42 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>, www-validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > > Test with a "random" HTML5 page: > > http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fintertwingly.net%2Fblog%2F > > Random, eh? :-) > > The warning puzzles me. I *think* that document is valid XHTML5, served with > the MIME type that draft HTML5 standard suggests for such documents. > > http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fintertwingly.net%2Fblog%2F > > Perhaps Ian or Henri could confirm? This warning is definitely wrong. The MIME type overrides the DOCTYPE as far as parse mode goes, according to HTML5. "<!DOCTYPE HTML>" is a well-formed XML DOCTYPE. > Here's HTML5 served as text/html: > > http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/index.html > > And it produces a different warning: > > http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Frails.intertwingly.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 > > Which, again, is not produced by Henri's service: > > http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Frails.intertwingly.net%2Fblog%2Findex.html As far as I can tell, the warning is wrong. However, I don't really understand what it is warning about, so it's unclear. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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