- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:29:17 -0400
- To: Jens Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Jens, all On 29-Jul-08, at 2:24 PM, Jens Meiert wrote: > are there any plans to add experimental support for HTML 5 in the near > future, maybe even building on Henri's validator [1], if applicable? I think it is unlikely to have direct html5 support in the markup validator any time soon, but it would be good to run an instance of henri's tool and encourage people playing with html5 to use it. The obstacle so far to hosting an instance has been the work needed to run that validator as a servlet under jigsaw (or jetty). Possibly small work, but I (nor anyone in the team) haven't had any time to look into it. One idea would be to use a tool like unicorn to dispatch documents to different validators, including the existing DTD-based markup validator, relaxed (with nvdl support for XML compound docs), validator.nu based on media type and other criteria. Something like this (rough, incomplete, probably wrong) flow: http://www.w3.org/2008/03/validators-chart We have a couple of interns doing some interesting work on unicorn to allow a flow like this. -- olivier
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