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Message-ID: <005d01c0ece3$a3cf7f70$80260286@HSMA04>
From: "Clemens Radl" <clemens.radl@uni-tuebingen.de>
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Cc: "SDJThorin" <sdjthorin@wyldeside.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:46:41 +0200
Subject: Re: Why Are certain META Tags Being Ignored?
Hi,
> I was just wondering why META tags like:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Script-Type" CONTENT="text/javascript;">
>
> are being ignored by the HTML Validation Service?
They are not being ignored. The declaration of the default scripting
language is needed for intrinsic events (specified with "onload",
"onsubmit", etc.).
> For example see:
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.wyldeside.com/
>
> I only ever use one type of scripting language on a page and I
> followed the standard as described at:
>
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/interact/scripts.html#h-18.2.1
>
> See "18.2.2 Specifying the scripting language" for exact details.
>
> If the validator did acknowledge this META tag then my page would
> be a valid HTML 4.0 Transitional document.
No, it wouldn't. The TYPE-attribute is required for each SCRIPT-element, as
specified in
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/scripts.html#edef-SCRIPT>.
Best wishes,
Clemens
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Clemens Radl
Universitaet Tuebingen
Abteilung fuer mittelalterliche Geschichte