- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:05:29 +0100
- To: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- CC: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, www-validator@w3.org
Michael[tm] Smith wrote: > A non-misleading way to describe the validator would be to say it's a > tool that's meant to conform as closely as possible to the > document-conformance constraints in the HTML5 specification. Real > objective requirements, in a real W3C specification that's been a W3C > specification for 5 years now and that is in fact the current W3C > specification for HTML. Confused, Mike : the W3C site clearly says (apropos of HTML 5) > This is a work in progress! For the latest updates from the HTML WG, > possibly including important bug fixes, please look at the editor's > draft instead. There may also be a more up-to-date Working Draft with > changes based on resolution of Last Call issues. So if HTML 5 is a work-in-progress, and if (as the specification itself says) the specification is a /draft/ specification, then I am unclear how it can also be "the current W3C specification for HTML". Surely the latter must be a full specification, not a draft, in which case it must be the HTML 4.01 specification which is (as far as I can tell) the last HTML (as opposed to XHTML) specification to have achieved full recommendation status. Philip Taylor
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