A loophole in the validator?
From: Pierre Far (pierrefar@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed, Jan 26 2000
Message-ID: <20000126212647.6687.qmail@hotmail.com>
From: "Pierre Far" <pierrefar@hotmail.com>
To: www-validator@w3.org
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:26:46 GMT
Subject: A loophole in the validator?
Dear all,
I am sure that you must have disscussed this before, but one could use
javascript to create non-standard HTML documents and they would still
validate as strict HTML. For a demo, please visit
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~orlp/validator/ , a page I set up. Using
document.write calls, the page creates a number of non-standard strict HTML
4.0, and the page does validate, as you can see from the logo at the bottom.
So what is to stop a devious webmaster from using this and tricking the
users?
Sincerely,
Pierre Far
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