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Posted by Andy Dingley on 08/13/07 14:24
On 13 Aug, 15:11, "Albert Wiersch" <nos...@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> There's a lot of people who would disagree with you, especially people who
> have actually used the program.
And why don't you think I've used the program? I did consider using
it (a large site licence, no less), but decided not to. It works, it
does the things that it claims to do. However it's impossible to teach
HTML developers how to use it correctly, because it bundles up vague
and wooly notions of "validation" and gives an overall report that
doesn't distinguish between these. As a result, it does nothing to
encourage the developers' overall understanding of HTML.
It's easier to teach new developers what validation actually means and
thus how to make sense of the reports from a OpenSP / Jade-based
validator than it is to take someone who has been exposed to CSE's
confused output and teach them to understand what they're actually
working with.
As a tool that was likely to make my developers _less_ competent by
its use, I decided against it.
Also you have a significant commercial interest in this program, and
in your ongoign misleading of users into the meaning of "validation".
You're very far from being an object assessment of it.
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