[Wtr-general] Question from a newbie

[Michael Bolton]

Just to be clear, there are two oracles by which I would consider this a
bug.  The non-comformance with the World Wide Web Consortium's spec is
actually the lesser of them, because the W3C is not really a stakeholder;
they don't have any skin in the game.

The fact that the duplicated ID attribute renders the product harder to test
using automation is by far the more important oracle, in that it's a real
problem for someone who does have skin the in game--the tester, and thus the
rest of the project community.  If a tester has to do extra work to address
this issue, less testing will get done overall, and that's a threat to the
value of the product.

---Michael B.

-----Original Message-----
From: wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord
Sent: October 24, 2006 10:37 PM
To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Question from a newbie

Cain, Mark wrote:
> Excuse me but aren't we talking about IE here? 
Not that i was aware of. My understanding is that the topic at hand was 
whether the HTML generated by a web application was conformant to WC3 
standards and whether non-conformance should be considered a bug. This 
has nothing to do with IE.

If you want to start a new topic that criticizes IE, then go ahead. But 
i don't understand that to be relevant to the existing thread. Did i 
miss something in the discussion?

Bret

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