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diff --git a/htdocs/feedback.html b/htdocs/feedback.html deleted file mode 100755 index a78afe5..0000000 --- a/htdocs/feedback.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,160 +0,0 @@ -<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: feedback.html,v 1.22 2005-06-21 05:55:37 ot Exp $" ---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2005-06-21 05:55:37 $" ---><!--#set var="title" value="How To Provide Feedback for The W3C Markup Validation Service" ---><!--#set var="relroot" value="./" ---><!--#include virtual="header.html" --> -<div class="doc"> -<h2>How to Provide Feedback For the W3C Markup Validator</h2> - -<div id="toc"> -<p>There are many ways to send feedback or discuss the Markup Validator:</p> -<ol> - <li>If you need <a href="#needhelp">help on validation or Web authoring</a></li> - - <li>If you would like to <a href="#errormsg">send a suggestion on a validation error message</a></li> - <li>If you want to <a href="#mailinglist">help, participate or discuss</a></li> - <li>If you want to <a href="#bugreport">search or report bugs</a>.</li> -</ol> -</div> - -<h3 id="needhelp"><a name="skip" id="skip"></a>Finding help on validation and Web Authoring</h3> - <p>Your page doesn't validate, and you don't know why, or - you have a question about <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>, - stylesheets or validation?</p> - <p> - <strong>First, check our <a href="docs/help.html">Help and <acronym title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</acronym> document</a>, as well as the - <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/">Web authoring <acronym title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</acronym></a> - to see if your question has been answered there.</strong> - </p> - <p> - The two most common problems are: - <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp">Validating pages with - ampersands (&'s) in - <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locators">URLs</acronym></a> and - <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#script">Validating pages with - JavaScript: <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> - in a <code>SCRIPT</code> Element</a>. - </p> - <p> - If your problem isn't covered by one of the resources above, - you can send it to one of the following forums: - </p> - - <ul> - <li>Usenet newsgroup: <code><a href="news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html">comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html</a></code></li> - <li><a href="http://www.hwg.org/"><acronym - title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> Writers Guild</a> - <a title="HTML Writers Guild Mailing Lists" - href="http://www.hwg.org/lists/">mailing lists</a></li> - </ul> - - <p> - Each of these forums have plenty of experienced <acronym - title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> - authors who are willing to share their expertise. If you are - commenting on a specific page, be sure to provide a - <acronym title="Universal Resource Locator">URL</acronym> - when you ask your question! - </p> - - -<h3 id="errormsg">Error Message feedback</h3> - <p>If you think the error messages in the Markup Validator's result pages could be improved, or are not comprehensible, - you can send questions and suggestions to our mailing-list.</p> - - - - <p>Before you send any feedback on error messages, we encourage you to search the archives for existing messages on this error - in case your feedback has already been sent, or answers to - your query have already been given. </p> - - - - <form method="get" action="http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search"> - <p>Search the archives of the www-validator mailing-list:<br /> - <input id="type-index" name="type-index" type="hidden" value="www-validator" /> - <input id="index-type" name="index-type" type="hidden" value="t" /> - - <input name="keywords" type="text" size="33" maxlength="100" value="" /> - - <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search Mail Archives" /> - </p> - </form> - - <p>Once you have checked that your suggestion has not been given yet, you can send your message. To write an efficient message:</p> - <ul> - <li><strong>Add a meaningful subject</strong>: summarize your feedback in a handful of words;</li> - <li>If our system added [VE][XX] at the beginning of the mail subject, keep it. - Otherwise, please precise which error message you are sending feedback about;</li> - <li><strong>Give a URL</strong> whenever possible: If your feedback comes from your experience validating a page, knowing what page it was will help us diagnose issues much quicker. - </li> - <li>Explain your suggestion, or question, in a clear and informative manner.</li> - </ul> - - <p>Once you have checked all the criteria above, - <a href="mailto:www-validator@w3.org?Subject=%20Error%20Message%20Feedback&body=Validating%20%0D%0A%0D%0A[%20Add%20your%20message/question%20here.%0D%0A%20%20Follow%20the%20instructions%20at%0D%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2Ffeedback.html%23errormsg%20]">send your message to the www-validator public mailing-list</a>. - </p> - -<h3 id="mailinglist">Discuss and participate</h3> - -<p>If you are interested in helping to improve this - service, by writing code or just providing ideas, you should feel fee to join or send a message to our mailing-list.</p> - - <p> - The <strong>public</strong> mailing-list to discuss the Markup Validator, Link checker and other tools is - <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/"><code>www-validator</code></a>. - </p> - - <p>You can <a title="Send a message to the www-validator-request subscription handler" - href="mailto:www-validator@w3.org?Subject=subscribe">subscribe</a> to the list - (and <a title="Send a message to the www-validator-request subscription handler" - href="mailto:www-validator@w3.org?Subject=unsubscribe">unsubscribe</a>), or if - you just have a small patch or idea and don't want to join the list, feel - free to <a title="Send a message to the www-validator mailing list" - href="mailto:www-validator@w3.org">send it directly to the list</a>. But whatever you do, - <strong>always use the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search?index-type=t;type-index=www-validator">mail - search engine</a></strong> first to check for existing messages on a given topic. - </p> - - <p> - If you just want to have an informal discussion with developers and users of the Validator, - you may also join the IRC channel #validator on the - <a href="http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml">freenode</a> network (irc.freenode.net). - However, please keep in mind that <em>this is not a support channel</em>. - </p> - -<h3 id="bugreport">Bug reports</h3> - <p> - The W3C maintains a public bug tracking database known as <a - href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/">Bugzilla</a> where developers - and other technical users can log bug reports and feature suggestions - directly. If you are not familiar with issue tracking systems in general - or the Bugzilla bug tracker, send your feedback to the <a href="#mailinglist">mailing list</a> - and someone on the W3C Validator Team will take care of logging your - issue as appropriate. - </p> - - <p>Before you enter a new bug in this database, we strongly encourage you to check that it is not yet in the list of opened issues. Here are a few links that you can use:</p> - - <ul> - <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/">W3C issue tracking system homepage</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=Validator;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;order=bugs.bug_id">All open Markup Validator issues</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=Validator;order=bugs.bug_id">All Markup Validator issues</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/query.cgi?product=Validator">Search Markup Validator issues</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=Validator">New Markup Validator issue</a></li> - </ul> - - <form method="get" action="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi"> - <p>You may also search the bug database directly:<br /> - <input name="short_desc_type" type="hidden" value="allwordssubstr" /> - <input name="product" type="hidden" value="Validator" /> - <input name="short_desc" type="text" size="40" maxlength="100" value="" /> - <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search Bug database" /> - </p> -</form> - -</div> -<!--#include virtual="footer.html" --> -</body> -</html> - |