Re: Support for <meta name="pingdom"> in HTML5 validator

Philip Horger <philip@inspire.com>, 2014-03-20 15:55 -0700:

> Hi, my name is Philip, and I work at Inspire.
> 
> Our company is transitioning to HTML5 (and trying to make sure everything
> is compatible with W3C validator), and one of the issues we found was our
> integration with the Pingdom heartbeat service. This uses a meta tag with
> name="pingdom", which is unsupported by the validator at this time.
> 
> We have since been able to add this item to the Wiki
> list<http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions>,
> although we're still working on getting a proper specification from Pingdom
> published. There's no immediate rush on this, but if you could let us know
> if/when the validator database has been synced from the wiki (such that it
> supports "pingdom" meta tags), that would be very appreciated.
> 
> Thank you for your time, and your excellent validation service,

http://validator.w3.org/nu/ and the HTML5 facet of http://validator.w3.org/
now recognize name=pingdom as valid.

  --Mike

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