- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:38:05 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Jens Meiert wrote: > any plans to add experimental support for HTML 5 in the near > future Guessing, wrt "near future" that's kind of unlikely, isn't it ? * The validator at the moment supports SGML and XML parsing, "HTML5" has its own (different) parsing ideas. * The validator uses the DOCTYPE to decide what to do, "HTML5" has only some rudimentary dummy Doctype. * The validator is at the moment driven by DTDa, but there's no DTD for "HTML5", and without Doctype a DTD would anyway miss the point. In other words "HTML5" is incompatible with everything that is essential for the validator (as is). You could create a front- end for Henri's validator and the functions you miss (validate by upload, and validate snippets). "HTML5" is a moving target, it could be confusing for ordinary users (= the audience here) if their pages are valid today and invalid tomorrow or v.v. depending on "HTML5" design decisions. Frank
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