- From: Phil Burk <philburk@softsynth.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 17:26:55 -0500 (EST)
- To: bart@gigabee.com
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Hello Bart, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > If you run http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/ on the W3C validator you will > > see it barf on doctype. > Then use the right one. It's really simple. I didn't put the doctype in there. Netscape did. > Well the W3C validator does default to HTML4. Also, Netscape Composer > is *not* widely used. If you really want WYSIWYG, look into Dreamweaver > by Macromedia, www.macromedia.com . Thanks. I'll check it out. I hope that it generates compliant code because I WANT to be compliant. > Well you're using a tool that checks against the W3C standards. I hardly > think that it's punishing you by showing you which parts of your document > didn't comply. If it's complaining about your DOCTYPE, then it didn't > comply. Make it comply. Simple as that. I think it SHOULD tell me the doctype is the wrong case. I think ALL errors should be flagged. I am not advocating the use of incorrect HTML. I just think the validator would be more useful if it recovered from simple errors more gracefully. Other validators tell me that there were really only about 4 errors in my file, bad case on doctype, used "size=+1" in font, used "HEIGHT=100%" in table, and used "COLS=1" in table. But the validator lost it's mind over the bad doctype and generated dozens of incorrect error messages like "<BODY> is illegal" which isn't very helpful. -- Phil Burk SoftSynth.com mailto:philburk@softsynth.com http://www.softsynth.com
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