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Bug 6001 - Need a more appropriate success message for (X)HTML5 validation
Summary: Need a more appropriate success message for (X)HTML5 validation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olivier Thereaux
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2008-08-29 16:21 UTC by Dean Edridge
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Dean Edridge 2008-08-29 16:21:01 UTC
Due to the HTML5 specification being a work in progress and therefore (X)HTML5 conformance criteria changing daily; I think we need to make people aware that the (X)HTML5 validation service is experimental.  

What was valid (X)HTML5 today may not be valid (X)HTML5 next week so I think we need a more appropriate success message.

At the moment we have the following message near the top of the page:

"This document was successfully checked as HTML5!"

Maybe this could be changed to:

"This document was successfully checked as HTML5!
The HTML5 specification is a work in progress. Validation results for your document may well vary as the specification progresses."

Or something like that :)

note: of course, change the HTML5 to XHTML5 for XHTML5 documents.
Comment 1 Olivier Thereaux 2008-09-11 19:53:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Maybe this could be changed to:
> 
> "This document was successfully checked as HTML5!
> The HTML5 specification is a work in progress. Validation results for your
> document may well vary as the specification progresses."

Sounds like a good idea. Thanks!



Comment 2 Olivier Thereaux 2009-01-29 16:12:30 UTC
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/dev/tests/html5-ok.html;ss

This document was successfully checked as HTML5! plus the info box about  Using experimental feature: HTML5 Conformance Checker should fit the bill for the time being.