Bug 767 – a/@ping treated as valid

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Bug 767 - a/@ping treated as valid


Summary:	a/@ping treated as valid

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

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

Importance:	P2 normal
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Reported:	2010-10-14 13:47 CEST by Julian Reschke
Modified:	2013-07-12 05:07 CEST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Julian Reschke 2010-10-14 13:47:59 CEST

Validator.nu appears to accept the "ping" attribute of <a> although it is not defined by HTML5.

Comment 1 Ms2ger 2010-12-29 19:48:25 CET

It is in WHATWG HTML.

Comment 2 Julian Reschke 2010-12-29 20:24:50 CET

My understanding is that validator.nu is supposed to check for conforming HTML5 documents as per the W3C spec.

Henri, Mike, could you please clarify?

Comment 3 Henri Sivonen 2011-01-03 14:30:48 CET

(In reply to comment #2)
> My understanding is that validator.nu is supposed to check for conforming HTML5
> documents as per the W3C spec.

Validator.nu has always tried to track the WHATWG spec (with varying levels of success as far as accuracy goes).

I realize that it's inconsistent to treat ping and <device> differently. Maybe they should both be in some kind of whatwg-only.rnc module that one could turn off in the complex interface.

Comment 4 Julian Reschke 2011-01-03 14:51:54 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> Validator.nu has always tried to track the WHATWG spec (with varying levels of
> success as far as accuracy goes).

I didn't know that...

> I realize that it's inconsistent to treat ping and <device> differently. Maybe
> they should both be in some kind of whatwg-only.rnc module that one could turn
> off in the complex interface.

That sounds like the right thing to do.

Comment 5 2011-07-26 20:52:32 CEST

Created attachment 199 [details]

Comment 6 Michael[tm] Smith 2013-07-12 05:07:29 CEST

I made a change quite a while back that disallows @ping in the W3C service.