Re: bug in html 5 validator ?? from Ville Skyttä on 2009-12-21 (www-validator@w3.org from December 2009)

From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:44:06 +0200
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <200912210844.07400.ville.skytta@iki.fi>

On Sunday 20 December 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Seems to be a general bug with direct input, validator found errors when
> using a check referer link that it did not find with direct input.

Yes, HTML5 direct input is broken in the current version of the validator (the 
W3C one, not validator.nu HTML5 one) in a way that makes it flag almost 
anything valid.  This is already fixed in the development version and will be 
deployed in the soon to be released W3C validator v0.8.6.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6747

Received on Monday, 21 December 2009 06:44:36 UTC