- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:41:38 +0200
- To: Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>, www-validator@w3.org
2014-02-06 0:00, Guus Schreiber wrote: > Some time early this year the validator has started to give an error > message when encountering: > > <table border="1">. > > This is explicitly allowed in HTML5 [1]. It's not very explicit. The part "Content attributes" says just: "Global attributes". Later in the prose, the border attribute is mentioned. So border="1" is allowed, but by taking a quick look at the HTML5 CR, you might easily get a different impression. The HTML 5.1 draft does not change this. > Is this a validator bug? Or am I missing something? Well, these days, a bug is whatever someone or his brother calls a bug. In the good old days, it was a deviation from an approved specification in software. Since HTML5 is not an approved specification, software purported to process "HTML5" cannot have any bugs in the classical sense, no matter what they do. But it's of course a deviation from HTML5 CR. Interestingly, the problem exists in http://validator.w3.org but not on http://validator.nu that it is based on. This suggests that the feature might be unintentional. Yucca
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