Re: Bug: at W3C HTML Validation Service from Terje Bless on 1999-09-29 (www-validator@w3.org from September 1999)

From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:12:50 +0200
To: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
cc: Ole Moller <olm@chaos.dk>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199909291307.PAA03457@vals.intramed.rito.no>

On 29.09.99 at 13:36, Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

>If tables are nested, IMO it would be sensible for the validator to be
>more stringent or issue a warning here.

The question is whether or not it is valid HTML. If the DTD allows it, the
validator shouldn't complain.

However, weblint might. I'm not sure what the old weblint does, but the
next major rev of weblint is in the works and could probably be persuaded
to issue warnings for this kind of thing.

Received on Wednesday, 29 September 1999 09:09:40 UTC