- From: Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:49:36 +1300 (NZDT)
- To: html-tidy@w3.org, rick.parsons@eds.com
I wrote: > Also, what should I do to make Tidy complain if a page > + does contain relative URIs, > - does NOT have a <base> element in the <head>? Rick Parsons wrote: I don't see why it should. It is perfectly valid HTML. If you are looking for a link checker, that would be another product. HTML Tidy does not confine itself to tidying up HTML. It *also* probides accessibility tips. Yes, I know that a page which contains relative URIs and does not have a <base> element is perfectly valid. It is also a collection of links that haven't broken YET (so a link checker probably wouldn't notice any problem), but are just waiting for a chance to happen, and that's a usability problem. It's the kind of thing Tidy *could* detect quite easily, and it's very much in the spirit of things that Tidy *does* detect and warn about. Note that I did not ask for Tidy to report this as a fatal error, or to change the resulting HTML in any way, simply that I'd like it to "complain", meaning to write a warning message (if the user requested it).
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