Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/18/06 16:58

Scripsit Albert Wiersch:

> Have you notified the W3C that there's no such thing as an "HTML
> Validator"?

Of course.

> It seems they have a link on their front page called
> "HTML Validator" and have had that for quite some time.

They also say (on the page pointed to by the link):

" This is the W3C Markup Validation Service, a free service that checks
Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C
Recommendations and other standards."

The first part is more correct, and then they go again. But at least they
are not cheating people to pay to them for something that isn't what they
claim it to be.

> It seems like you live in your own
> world with your own definitions.

I didn't invent the concept of markup validator. I didn't invent the concept
of honesty, but I still try to be honest, unlike so many others.

>> But at least validators are what they claim to be, modulo a few bugs
>> perhaps, and not half-baked checkers sold under an intentionally
>> misleading name like "CSE HTML Validator".
>
> Again, you continue to say more things that aren't true.

That's what you say, but you have never managed to refute the statement I
made.

And you intentionally mislead people in order to make more money by selling
your product.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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