- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:25:06 +0300
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Rui del-Negro wrote: > In any case, it's not really up to you > (or me) to decide how other people's pages should look. Yet you decided that the validity icon occupies a small area. > It's really not up to you (or me) to decide what each site owner > considers "more important on the global and historical scale". Yet you promoted the idea of showing the validity icon, among the 1,000,000 or more icons that might be shown. Do I get it right when I conjecture that you ran out of rational arguments? > I'm just making the point that saying "visitors don't want to validate > your site" is missing the point. You made many other claims as well. And saying so is correct anyway. > The point of having some icons on your page (be > they for the validator or your favourite rock band or political > movement or anything else) is to make a statement that you (the > page's author) finds relevant. So why would it be relevant to propagate adherence to some syntactic definition? >> Why would that matter, to someone authoring web pages, >> or to web site visitors, or anyone else? > > Is that a philosophical question? No, a most practical one. Do you have a practical reason to spend screen real estate to claim that your page is valid (which is just gibberish to most visitors)? Yucca
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