[html5] r7202 - [c] (0) Allow conformance checkers more leeway in reporting missing alt='' error [...]

[whatwg at whatwg.org]

Author: ianh
Date: 2012-07-24 11:59:11 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2012)
New Revision: 7202

Modified:
   complete.html
   index
   source
Log:
[c] (0) Allow conformance checkers more leeway in reporting missing alt='' errors.
Affected topics: HTML

Modified: complete.html
===================================================================
--- complete.html	2012-07-24 15:26:16 UTC (rev 7201)
+++ complete.html	2012-07-24 18:59:11 UTC (rev 7202)
@@ -25553,9 +25553,13 @@
    <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title=meta-generator><a href=#meta-generator>generator</a></code>". (This case does not
    represent a case where the document is conforming, only that the
    generator could not determine appropriate alternative text —
-   validators are required to not show an error in this case to
-   discourage markup generators from including bogus alternative text
-   purely in an attempt to silence validators.)</li>
+   validators are not required to show an error in this case, because
+   such an error might encourage markup generators to include bogus
+   alternative text purely in an attempt to silence validators.
+   Naturally, conformance checkers <em>may</em> report this error; for
+   example, there could be a user option to report <em>all</em>
+   conformance errors even those that might be the more or less
+   inevitable result of using a markup generator.)</li>
 
   </ul></div>
 

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2012-07-24 15:26:16 UTC (rev 7201)
+++ index	2012-07-24 18:59:11 UTC (rev 7202)
@@ -25553,9 +25553,13 @@
    <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title=meta-generator><a href=#meta-generator>generator</a></code>". (This case does not
    represent a case where the document is conforming, only that the
    generator could not determine appropriate alternative text —
-   validators are required to not show an error in this case to
-   discourage markup generators from including bogus alternative text
-   purely in an attempt to silence validators.)</li>
+   validators are not required to show an error in this case, because
+   such an error might encourage markup generators to include bogus
+   alternative text purely in an attempt to silence validators.
+   Naturally, conformance checkers <em>may</em> report this error; for
+   example, there could be a user option to report <em>all</em>
+   conformance errors even those that might be the more or less
+   inevitable result of using a markup generator.)</li>
 
   </ul></div>
 

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2012-07-24 15:26:16 UTC (rev 7201)
+++ source	2012-07-24 18:59:11 UTC (rev 7202)
@@ -27479,9 +27479,13 @@
    title="meta-generator">generator</code>". (This case does not
    represent a case where the document is conforming, only that the
    generator could not determine appropriate alternative text —
-   validators are required to not show an error in this case to
-   discourage markup generators from including bogus alternative text
-   purely in an attempt to silence validators.)</li>
+   validators are not required to show an error in this case, because
+   such an error might encourage markup generators to include bogus
+   alternative text purely in an attempt to silence validators.
+   Naturally, conformance checkers <em>may</em> report this error; for
+   example, there could be a user option to report <em>all</em>
+   conformance errors even those that might be the more or less
+   inevitable result of using a markup generator.)</li>
 
   </ul>