- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:25:24 +0900
- To: Brian Wilson <bloo@blooberry.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Brian, On Jan 30, 2008, at 08:09 , Brian Wilson wrote: > I'd like to be able to help with these bugs, and I think that the > research I've been doing lately at Opera would probably be able to > close the issue. Fantastic. From the discussions I've seen on IRC, I think your research would be very useful indeed. With regards to bug 85, ideally the sample would have been precisely what users submit to the validator, a sample which I think may be fairly different from any sample of web pages in the wild. But the latter is already very interesting. [Bug85] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=85 > - What sort of questions would people like to see answered about > trends of validated documents, other than "how many pages validate", > or "what is the most frequent error type". I know I'm answering a bit late, so feel free to disregard or keep for a later installment of your survey... * stats on the documents themselves. Doctype, mime type, charset. Ideally, whether charset is in HTTP, XML decl, meta. There are existing studies about these, but another study made on a different sample would bring more perspective. * precise values for the error messages. Knowing which type of error is "popular" will be very useful, but so would knowing what the offending attributes/element/construct. In other words, knowing that "unknown attribute" is the #1 error will be great – knowing that the top unknown attributes are frameborder or whatnot will be awesome. > - How and to whom should the results be presented? > (to the list? other interested parties? To this list, I think. I know of at least a few interested parties, who'd like to know the top error messages to prioritize a blossoming translation effort, but they can be pointed to the message on the list. Wherever the results are sent, I'll definitely feature them on the W3C Questions&Answers blog, too. http://www.w3.org/QA/ Cheers, -- olivier
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