- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 18:18:59 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Clitheroe Kid <clitheroekid@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Clitheroe Kid wrote: > I wish to offer the following comments about the validation of HTML 4.01 > Transitional pages. This, as well as your other message, relates to the document type definition, not to the validator that performs a check against it. You can write a DTD you like and check against it. Beware however that the W3C validator is not well-equipped to handle it: it is oriented towards checking against W3C-approved DTDs. The WDG validator is more useful if you check against a "custom DTD". Regarding custom DTDs, you might wish to check http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/own-dtd.html where I also describe a "tagsoup DTD" that you might use as a basis. > For instance, I use both the IE "marquee" tag and the Netscape "blink" tag > in conjunction, so that a page element will scroll in a marquee if viewed by > IE or will blink if viewed by Netscape. That will just increase the odds of causing damage. But validators are blind to such issues. If you wish to use such tags and validate, then select or write a DTD that allows them. Validators care absolutely nothing about what works on a browser or another. I'm sure you are on a completely wrong track, but it _is_ possible to make some use of validation even in that case. For some values of "use". -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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