- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:40:06 +0200
- To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
- Cc: "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:19:35 +0200, Steven Faulkner
<faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> There has been some discussion [1] on WAI-xtech about HTML+ARIA
> validator/conformance checker
>
> david dorward wrote:
>
> The HTML Working Group is chartered to "maintain and produce incremental
> revisions to the HTML specification"[1], which I would imagine HTML 4.01
> + ARIA would fall under. I imagine you would raise the matter with them
> and see if they would be willing to work with the WAI to publish a small
> Recommendation which makes reference to ARIA and HTML 4.01, defines a
> Doctype and includes a DTD.
Some things to keep in mind when doing this:
* Minting new XHTML FPIs is not popular among browser vendors.
* Minting new HTML FPIs will force documents that use it to be in
"standards mode". This is probably not a showstopper but might be
annoying for authors who are currently in quirks mode or almost
standards mode and want to add ARIA and validate.
I think it would be better for both browser vendors and authors if there's
a way for authors to use the legacy doctypes. For instance,
validator.w3.org could have a checkbox that enables ARIA support for any
of HTML4 and XHTML 1.x.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 15:41:11 UTC