FW: Errors list seems incomplete

From: Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@asu.edu)
Date: Wed, Mar 28 2001

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    Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:16:14 -0700
    From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    Cc: "'Josh Soref'" <soref@wam.umd.edu>
    Message-id: <A021872EC2BDD411AB3600902746A055016047FD@mainex4.asu.edu>
    Subject: FW: Errors list seems incomplete
    
    Josh Soref e-mailed me directly, requesting that the the error explanation
    page [1] use <a name> in addition to id to provide targets, so that the
    anchors work in legacy (i.e., NS4) browsers.  That's allowable in
    Transitional XHTML 1, so it seems a good idea.
    
    [1] <http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html>
    
    Thanasis Kinias
    Information Dissemination Team, Information Technology
    Arizona State University
    Tempe, Ariz., U.S.A.
    
    Qui nos rodunt confundantur
    et cum iustis non scribantur.
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Josh Soref [mailto:soref@wam.umd.edu]
    Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2001 10:42
    To: Thanasis Kinias
    Subject: Re: Errors list seems incomplete
    
    
    > Thanasis Kinias wrote:
    > 
    > Josh Soref wrote:
    > 
    > > I was trying to validate a page and there was an explanation link to
    > > http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html#attr-undef
    > > but that didn't appear to be explained in the page
    > 
    > If you post a URL to the page in question (which triggered the error), the
    list subscribers will have an easier time helping you.
    > 
    > From what you posted, my guess would be that you've used Netscape or MS
    proprietary markup (i.e., not valid W3C HTML), but that's just a SWAG.
    
    sorry, the problem is that w3 uses id's on random elements instead of using
    <a name> like a friendly script. [i was using nc4.76 instead of mozilla's
    winembed]
    
    could you possibly make errors.html legacy friendly?