Petko Yotov wrote: > On Tuesday 07 April 2009 01:36:29 DaveG wrote: >> > Petko Yotov schrieb: >> > I was surprised to >> > find out that in the first 20 skins, 17 failed to validate. >> >> The w3 validation doesn't validate skins. It validates HTML pages. The >> validation results can provide useful direction to both the skin author >> *and* the specific page that is being validated. > > If a page with the same content, but with the default PmWiki skin, validates, > one could legitimately consider that what does not validate is the skin. This is simply not accurate. It is possible for a page to use html/attributes which are valid with one skin and invalid with another. This does not mean that the skin is somehow invalid.
> I'll be happy to help authors fix their recipes if they are unable or > unwilling to do it, or disable on pmwiki.org those demos that fail to > validate. With respect to skins, I think this is a rather ridiculous statement, given that it is possible for the content of a web page to cause page to be invalid for a given skin. _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
