- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:39:18 +0200
- To: "Naz" <naz_ayub@hotmail.com>
- Cc: "W3C Validator Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Naz wrote: >> >> Validating http://www.ukofficialcertificates.co.uk/ >> Error [76]: "element X undefined" > > Currently shews 87 Errors, 1 warning(s), Naz, none of which > are "element X undefined". That is true, and confusing, but the string "element X undefined" is generated when someone clicks on a "suggest improvements" link in validation results (those links appear on the right of error messages and have, confusingly, an image of an envelope as the link image, and all of them have Alt="Error", violating W3C accessibility recommendations). More exactly, clicking on one of those links, then selecting the "send your message to the www-validator public mailing-list" link opens (if your browser has been configured to launch an e-mail program when following a mailto: link, etc.) a message composition window, with the string Re: [VE][76] Add Subject Here prefilled in the Subject line (with just the number "76" varying) and with prefilled content like Validating http://www.ukofficialcertificates.co.uk/ Error [76]: "element X undefined" This is surely better than getting messages that say just "the validator does not like my document" or something like that, but it's still rather incomplete. The user is expected to replace "Add Subject Here" with something descriptive, but as the situation is confusing, the expectation often fails. And the error message string inserted is the generic one, "element X undefined", not the specific message shown to the user. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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