Just to be clear, there are two oracles by which I would consider this a bug. The non-comformance with the World Wide Web Consortium's spec is actually the lesser of them, because the W3C is not really a stakeholder; they don't have any skin in the game.
The fact that the duplicated ID attribute renders the product harder to test using automation is by far the more important oracle, in that it's a real problem for someone who does have skin the in game--the tester, and thus the rest of the project community. If a tester has to do extra work to address this issue, less testing will get done overall, and that's a threat to the value of the product. ---Michael B. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord Sent: October 24, 2006 10:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Question from a newbie Cain, Mark wrote: > Excuse me but aren't we talking about IE here? Not that i was aware of. My understanding is that the topic at hand was whether the HTML generated by a web application was conformant to WC3 standards and whether non-conformance should be considered a bug. This has nothing to do with IE. If you want to start a new topic that criticizes IE, then go ahead. But i don't understand that to be relevant to the existing thread. Did i miss something in the discussion? Bret _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
