- From: Eric Meyer <emeyer@netscape.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:50:32 -0400
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Terje Bless wrote: > In an attempt to address the concerns raised recently (FSVO) on this list, the > validator will no longer treat a missing DOCTYPE Declaration or Character > Encoding labelling as a fatal error. Such documents are still labeled as > invalid, and a "loud" error message is emitted, but the validator will now > attempt to perform the validation run using default values. I think this is a great change, one that will make validation significantly more friendly and usable for developers. Thanks for including it in this update! I do think that visually highlighting the large fallback message a little more would be nice. It could be something as simple as a light red background in the vicinity of #FCC-- not alarmingly red, in other words, but still giving a sense of something having gone awry. -- Eric A. Meyer ............. emeyer@netscape.com Standards Evangelist ...... http://devedge.netscape.com/ Netscape Communications ... http://www.netscape.com/ Author of "CSS: The Definitive Guide" (O'Reilly & Associates)
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