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Posted by Albert Wiersch on 05/07/06 03:30
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> It has, but Albert Wiersch does not want to participate in discussions. As
> you may have noticed, he has, during the last six years or so, posted
> _only_ to advertize his phoney validator every now and then. How could he
> know what we have been discussing?
It would be nice if you could stop bashing me and my product. And I did do
research before posting the question as I supplied a list of typefaces.
> Maybe this time he genuinely wants to get free help to add a feechure to
> his "validator". This is symptomatic, since it reveals the nature of what
> he claims to be added value in his "validator" as compared with
> validators: additional checks, which cause error messages and warnings
> based on the taste and (mis)conceptions of Albert Wiersch alone.
I'm always looking for new checks for CSE HTML Validator perform that are of
value to end users. I often give the end user the option of disabling a
check if he/she does not like it.
> It _would_ be possible to make useful heuristic checks on typeface names,
> though. Some typefaces, most notably Symbol but also Wingdings fonts, are
> almost certainly used in an attempt to hack browsers into rendering
> characters incorrectly, so it would be quite adequate to issue a warning.
> Some typefaces, especially Code2000, look very poor without font
> smoothing. More questionably, a warning could be given about Verdana in
> copy text (assuming you can automagically distinguish copy text from
> headings and special texts). You could also issue a warning about the use
> fantasy fonts in copy text. Finally, a checker could check the font names
> against a largish list of actually existing fonts and warn at least about
> such names that are apparently misspellings, such as Ariel for Arial...
Thanks... now that might be helpful information and additional checks I can
implement.
Albert
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