On 11 Nov 2010, at 10:50, Chris Taylor wrote: > From: David Dorward > Sent: 11 November 2010 10:30 > >> On 11 Nov 2010, at 09:18, Chris Taylor wrote: >>> In fact, this is HTML5-style - <!doctype html> - but will work fine in all >>> browsers (as far as I know). > >> When you come to perform basic QA using a validator, on the other hand, you >> get very different results. > > Agreed, and it is a problem, but how much of that problem is validators not > being updated? To be honest, if that's the only error I get from a validator > I'd feel I was doing a decent job. The crux is, as it has always been, what > actually happens in browsers themselves.
Error? I wasn't suggesting that a validator would complain about the Doctype. It will either fail to recognise it (and thus refuse to do any validation) or it will trigger HTML5 validation. This isn't built on HTML 4.01 validation since HTML 5 is not an SGML application. The result is that you get a completely different validation engine — one that isn't mature and is still trying to track a moving target. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
