- From: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:49:45 +0300
- To: www-validator list <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:53, David Dorward wrote: > 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. Additionally, in the current Validator implementation, it would not have any effect wrt. the content type. The Content-Type header sent by the uploading browser or the server serving a document is what counts. The <meta> stuff is used only for resolving the charset, and even there, only as a fallback or a sanity/consistency check (with a possibly included charset in the real Content-Type header and/or XML encoding). > I'd suggest something along the lines of: [...] The beta version at http://validator.w3.org:8001/ already has a somewhat improved message along those lines. It can be further improved though.
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