- From: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:45:12 +0200
- To: Art and Scores <artandscores@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C WWW Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
> > 2. Result: > > > > Line: 184 https://fonts.gstatic.com/Status: 404 Not Found > > b) That’s there to “preconnect” to the Google servers so they can serve your > Google Fonts faster. Going directly to the URL won’t work, but it’s doing > things in the background to speed up the website Actually not, unless I misread respective spec (not overly familiar with it): https://w3c.github.io/resource-hints/#dfn-preconnect. “Resolve the URL given by the href attribute” suggests that that address shouldn’t be fictional but actually available. It’s not, as the link check and yourself, too, found out. > c) You can find the same thing in the new Twenty Seventeen theme by > WordPress. It seems to me that the Twenty Seventeen theme may needs updating. > d) I believe the link checker needs updating to ignore preconnect parameters > for cases like this. It seems to me that the link checker does everything correctly. It’s highly unusual to reference, let alone demand to reference, non-existing or offline sources. -- Jens Oliver Meiert https://meiert.com/en/ ☆ https://uitest.com/
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