[whatwg] Make quoted attributes a conformance criteria
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Thu Aug 13 03:24:09 PDT 2009
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2009, at 05:45, Ian Hickson wrote:
> >
> > Instead of preventing anyone from not using quote marks, I would
> > instead recommend asking your validator vendor to offer you an option
> > to require quote marks and warn you when you have forgotten them.
>
> There's a usability cost and a QA cost to adding optional features to a
> validator, which is why I try to resist requests to add more
> configuration and optional features to Validator.nu.
We need more validators, so that authors can pick the one they want. I'm
not saying validator.nu should be the one to support this.
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