- From: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 22:22:57 +0000
- To: Paul Nelson <s.i.meetings@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Paul Nelson wrote: > Thanks, Philip. I've used the service for more than 15 years -- > since first finding that it existed -- precisely to catch mistakes that > might mess up the pages for some people ... and have used the icon not > to show the certified correctness of my latest work, but simply to > enable others to likewise find out that the service exists. Doing so > (with the CSS checking service) has enabled me to keep things very > simple indeed. Prior to the advent of HTML 5, not only was the HTML validator a (relatively) stable tool, but so was the reference specification itself. Whilst even then there was no real benefit in using a "Valid HTML" icon, it did no harm since neither the specification nor the validator were likely to change. Post HTML 5, the world is a very different place; the HTML validator is totally unlike its predecessor, both in terms of functionality and in terms of stability, and I for one no longer see any benefit in linking to it. If you want to advertise its existence to your visitors, then rather than displaying a potentially false "Valid HTML" icon, you might instead like to create one that reads "Valid when created; click here to see if valid today" or similar. Philip Taylor
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