- From: Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:44:27 +0900
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, www-validator@w3.org
I see that Chaals has since updated the spec to actually state the requirement that the value of longdesc be non-empty. So I've also made that change in the validator sources, and pushed the change to the validator. Thanks for the heads-up, --Mike Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@målform.no>, 2013-04-01 22:56 +0200: > From the editors’ response, it is evident that it was always intended > that longdesc is a valid non-empty URL: > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21436#c2 > > Leif H Silli > > Leif Halvard Silli, Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:16:58 +0100: > > Michael[tm] Smith, Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:16:38 +0900: > > > >> I also updated it to now recognize the longdesc attribute as > >> valid (including a check to ensure its value is a valid URL). > > > > That the URL is valid, is one thing. But don't you, as validator > > developers, agree that the URL should as well be *non-empty*? For the > > img element’s @src attribute, the validator already checks that the URL > > is a *non-empty* URL. This has now been captured as bug 21436: > > "@longdesc should, like @src, be a valid *non-empty* URL".[1] > > > > [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21436 -- Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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