On 27 Apr 2004, at 13:40, Dru Sellers wrote: <snip> paraphrase: "The error message for an unsupported content type is not very helpful". > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> For various reasons, mostly described at <http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html>, this isn't a very good solution. I'd suggest something along the lines of: The provided document was sent with a content-type of text/plain, the W3C Markup Validation Service only accepts documents with a content-type selected from the following list: * text/html * application/xhtml+xml (it doesn't yet IIRC, but I think its on the TODO list) * etc You can <a>find out more about content-types</a> with a link to a document that explains: * What content types are * Why content types are used * That they are set in different ways depending on what sends them to the validator - Quick guide to configuring Apache with link to the Apache documentation - Ditto IIS - File Upload with browsers (I don't know how they select content types, I guess most of them will use the file extension) - Otherwise a suggestion to consult the documentation for the software -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>Received on Tuesday, 27 April 2004 08:55:50 GMT
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