The comparison to Don Quixote is skew; HTML (hopefully) improves while spoken languages (just as currencies) deteriorate. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Eduard Pascual Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:12 PM To: dar...@chaosreigns.com Cc: whatwg Subject: Re: [whatwg] Validation Of course, a lot of legacy content will no longer validate with HTML5 validators; but where is the issue? It will still render. After all, no one would expect Don Quixote or Hamlet to be "valid" according to modern Spanish and English rules, respectivelly, but people who know either language are still able to read them. This is an inherent part of language evolution; and hence is a needed side-effect for evolving HTML. And we need to evolve HTML, becuase the current standard is over a decade old, and is falling short to the web's needs every now and then. Just my PoV anyway. Regards, Eduard Pascual