Re: Where is <BODY> supposed to go?
From: Harold A. Driscoll (harold@driscoll.chi.il.us)
Date: Tue, Jan 18 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:42:59 -0600
To: Vidiot <vidiot@vidiot.com>
From: "Harold A. Driscoll" <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <20000118064720.NCGC5432.mta1@mallard>
Subject: Re: Where is <BODY> supposed to go?
At 23:06 17-01-00 , Vidiot wrote:
>Run the following page through your validations checker:
>
> www.vidiot.com/index.html
>
>The weblint portion of the report says that <BODY> can'r go where
>I have it placed. If I move it further up, the validator complains
>about placement. There appears to be no place that is safe for
><BODY>
When they disagree, the validator takes precedence.
>Since when is white not a legal color?
Weblint is a collection of advisory opinions, FWIW.
>Since when are the attibutes that I have for the framesets illegal?
Since as long as the HTML 4 specification has been in effect.
>A TYPE attribute for SCRIPT? Since when.
Since as long as the HTML 4 specification has been in effect.
>I have the third edition
>of the O'Reilly Javascript book and there is no discusstion of
>a TYPE attribute for SCRIPT.
Alas, that may be a shortcoming of the book.
>Excuse me for being blunt, but if every page that I
>submit to the validation program is going to be rejected
>as having errors, then what good is the validation program?
The validation program is good. You should be looking to the HTML coding
quality.
>At this point in time, I have no idea how to make <BODY> compliant.
The precise description can be found in the DTD within the HTML 4
specification document.
Safe computing, /Harold
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