- From: Andy Williams <andrew23@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:18:19 +1200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Message-ID: <23d536df0806062118l268ae5e4pa660083c80800baa@mail.gmail.com>
Hi there, First time poster to this address hoping that I'm sending this message to the right place... I have been motivated to write by what I regard as an *unnecessarily* *ambiguous *and *misleading* green icon AND accompanying message - both of which indicate (to the less-than-eagle-eyed) a *wholly *VALID result - i.e. the current scheme has (I assume) no means of conveying (visually) a distinction between a wholly valid result and a warning, such as the one that fired when I omitted to close an img tag nested with an anchor tag E.G. <a href="http://www.example.com" title="lorem"> <img src="dir/filename.ext" alt="ipsum"</a> instead of <a href="http://www.example.com" title="lorem"> <img src="dir/filename.ext" alt="ipsum"></a> > > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Ffilename.html > > The construct <foo<bar> is valid in HTML (it is an example of the rather > obscure "Shorttags" feature) but its use is not recommended<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7>. > In most cases, this is a typo that you will want to fix. If you really want > to use shorttags, be aware that they are not well implemented by browsers. > *Suggestion: * A third colour - perhaps orange, in keeping with traffic lights - for warnings: Instead of <h2 class="*valid*">This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!</h2> and <td colspan="2" class="*valid*"> Passed validation, <strong class="*has_warnings*">1 warning(s)</strong> </td> How about... <h2 class="*has_warnings*">This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Strict with Warning(s)!</h2> and <td colspan="2" class="*has_warnings*"> Passed validation but with <strong class="*has_warnings*">1 warning(s)</strong> </td> building on the current classes in http://validator.w3.org/style/results.css strong.has_warnings { font-weight:bold; color:#000; background-color: #f60; /* Orange-Orange-Red */ } Cheers Andy
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