Bug 302 – Certain markup errors emit unhelpfully many messages

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Bug 302 - Certain markup errors emit unhelpfully many messages


Summary:	Certain markup errors emit unhelpfully many messages

Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML parser
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

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Reported:	2008-09-17 14:06 CEST by Simon Pieters
Modified:	2015-04-01 09:59 CEST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Simon Pieters 2008-09-17 14:06:17 CEST

http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080917#l-271

# [10:05] <zcorpan_> hsivonen: i wonder if it would be more useful than it is now to be fatal upon seeing a stray <tr>  
# [10:07] <zcorpan_> hsivonen: maybe it would be useful to analyse logs where there were >1000 messages  
# [10:08] <zcorpan_> hsivonen: and identify cases where it's unhelpful to continue validation  
# [10:13] <zcorpan_> hsivonen: another candidate is missing </ol> ("X not allowed as child of element ol in this context.")