RE: http-equiv="refresh" redirects ignored in markup validator

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Kati wrote:

> It would be nice if the validator just took a glance at the META refresh 
> directive.

No, that would be quite incorrect. A validator is supposed to check the 
conformance of a document against the DTD it purports to comply with. 
Nothing more, nothing less. It is quite agnostic about the meaning of any 
element.

> If for no other reason, then that it would give me some kind of 
> argument to fix this page to work with FireFox as well:

Why would META refresh "directives" matter?

> http://www.ambk.se/index.html

That's quite an impressive demonstration of foolish meta tags, but the 
values of attributes of such elements should be of no interest to a 
validator. We might make concessions to meta tags specifying the character 
encoding, when the encoding cannot be decided on the basis of HTTP 
headers.

-- 
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:35:24 UTC