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Dear Sirs, It is urgently needed to fix two old bugs in HTML schemas: 1. IFRAME element needs to be added to HTML Strict. Currently even fully conformant web-sites have to use HTML Loose or cheat on validator, because IFRAME is an integral part of too many solutions. I guess the Transitional phase is well passed :-), it's time for Strict. If the transition did not come to the exact point you wanted, it is bad but nothing can be done. <OBJECT> replacement did not work out because of too many security implications. 2. WRAP attribute for TEXTAREA has to be added to all schemas or at least to HTML Strict. It was originally excluded by mistake as it was thought that CSS can be used instead. It can not because this attribute defines *form submission behavior* (with or without line breaks in the text) and cannot be replaced by CSS rules. Currently these two bugs are too evident and they putting in a difficult position even the best of your followers among browser producers. To not look ridicilous they are forced to skip on these errors in their own validators. Please let know if HTML 4.02 Strict (with these two bugs fixed) can be expected any soon. Thank you in advance.
What you are reporting here are not bugs in the validator, which only follows the DTDs for HTML as they are defined. If you wish to make suggestions for change to the HTML DTDs, please address your comments to the public mailing-list www-html: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/