[html4all] HTML5 Bug 7034

[John Foliot - WATS.ca]

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...

JF