[html4all] HTML5 Bug 7034

[catherine]

John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote:
> Robert J Burns wote:
>> Is that a joke? I haven't been following this
>>  thread close enough.
>>
> 
>>From all appearances this is not a joke.  I started a thread last week
> asking about the real value in conformance vis-à-vis HTML5, and from that
> thread came comments from Rob Sayre (I believe) that Henri’s “validator” was
> in fact more of an ideology checker, as it appears that user agents
> (browsers) will render non valid and valid content equally (this confirmed,
> at least for Firefox, by Jonas Siking) – they do not throw critical errors
> on non-valid code, thus striving for valid code is an ideological desire,
> but one step removed from actual consequences. Ergo, let’s call a spade a
> spade.
> 
> Somewhat surprised by the turn of events that have subsequently transpired,
> but truth in advertising...

Still, if this is not a joke, not sure this is a good thing (i.e. pretty 
sure it is not).


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Catherine Roy
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