- From: chris does plone <chriswilshaw@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
why then does the service offer these links and buttons and badges? refer to a Plone site for an example of apparent "best practice" of having "valid XHTML" in the footer of the site.... Michael Adams-8 wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:11:35 -0700 (PDT) > Came this utterance fomulated by chris does plone to my mailbox: > >> >> >> Michael Adams-8 wrote: >> > >> > Besides, the validator is for developers, not clueless surfers. >> > >> again http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#clickedandlost the first >> question of the FAQ is how did it get here? Users can and do arrive at >> the validator from a site and i simply suggest a statement with "where >> they are, why and <back", so that they can have a smooth surf. >> >> The web did not get achieve good usability by developers referring to >> users as "clueless surfers" ;-) > > What i was saying is, if you dont put validator links and icons on your > site they wont get to the validator. They will have to explicitly search > for the validator. Thats what i meant when i say that the validator is > for dewvelopers. > > The web doesn't achieve good anything by redirecting someone to a site > that has nothing to do with the one they just left. Why do you want to > tempt them in the first place? And if they dont know how to find a back > button they are clueless. > > -- > Michael > > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall > be well > > - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/idea-for-validator---%22back-to-referring-website%22-tp20174694p20183837.html Sent from the w3.org - www-validator mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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