Bugzilla – Bug 886
Alert conformance-checker users about the generator exception
Last modified: 2011-12-13 00:21:48 CET
PROPOSAL: To make authors aware of the effect of the GENERATOR exception, please alert the conformance-checker user about the fact that it casues <img> elemetns to not be validated. BACKGROUND: As predicted, the generator exception causes confusion. Example: (1) A page was analysed w.r.t. why the <img>s were considered valid, despite the lack of @alt: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2011Dec/0017 (2) After a few messages in www-validator@ and other fora, it suddenly dawned on us that the hand coded page in question contained the following META element: <META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT="Hand"> Thus the seeming validity, was the generator exception rule's fault: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2011Dec/0023 I am sceptical about the generator exception, but as long as it is present, those who use the conformance-checker service should be informed about the effect of its presence, so as to not - on false ground - draw conclusions about the page's validity.
(In reply to comment #0) > the fact that it casues <img>elemetns to not be validated. Please read the above like so: "the fact that it casues <img>elemetns to not be validated for use of @alt attribute"