- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:02:56 -0700
- To: P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk
- Cc: connolly@w3.org, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Actually the algorithm you used to call that page an error takes
me back to the horror days of <b><i>..</b> HTML where
eventually, correct, well-balanced markup often failed as an
error as the various browsers bent over backwards to "correct"
for errors.
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) writes:
>
>
>
> Dan Connolly wrote:
>
> > OK... at the risk of further exposing my ignorance... I'll bite.
> >
> > Today's featured article in wikipedia is ~32k and I don't
> > see any errors; the W3C markup service
> > says "This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!" and
> > the firefox error console is blank.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_32
>
> Yet the page is being served as text/html and should thus
> be parsed as such (and not as XHTML). The <head> region
> should therefore terminate at the "/" of
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> and the ">" of the same should cause an error ("character data not allowed
> here" or somesuch). Not the best example of an error-free page, IMHO, Dan ...
>
> Philip TAYLOR
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