- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:39 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>, Jay Litwyn <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Jukka K. Korpela, Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:04:23 +0200: > 2011-12-12 16:25, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > >> I did not find the original document where the problem manifested >> itself. But it sounds as if you say that the HTML5 validator never >> issues an error message when @alt is lacking. > > I wrote about the specific case. The issue can be reconstructed: > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/alt.html > (It's a copy of the page as it is now, except that I removed the alt > attribute from the first <img> tag.) Like I already said: the validator reports no errors when it validates via the URL, but does report errors when you paste in the code directly. I have not filed any bug on this, but the validator is clearly in error. >> But that is not how it >> is. Here is a test in validator.nu - validator.w3.org gives the same >> result - where there is an error due to lack of @alt: > > It's rather questionable, for a checking tool, to report some issue > in some situations and be silent about it in others, without giving a > clue of what this depends on. To begin with, I think the most important issue here, is the URL vs paste-in-the-source-code-directly issue. -- Leif H Silli
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