- From: Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:18:04 -0500
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 04:12 PM, Liam Quinn wrote: > No. <table border> is actually equivalent to <table frame=border>. > Note > this comment from the HTML 4.01 DTD in describing the values for the > "frame" attribute: > > The value "border" is included for backwards compatibility with > <TABLE BORDER> which yields frame=border and border=implied > For <TABLE BORDER=1> you get border=1 and frame=implied. In this > case, it is appropriate to treat this as frame=border for backwards > compatibility with deployed browsers. That is what the prose of the specification says. What I am trying to understand is how the DTD knows this, and doesn't complain? Is the other obtuse error it reports for <table summary> actually just trying to tell me I should have supplied a value? -- Jim Correia correia@barebones.com
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