- From: Soren Johannessen <standard@ae35-unit.dk>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:56:18 +0100
- To: Brian Kelly <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-evangelist@w3.org
Brian Kelly wrote: >Hi Soren > Another question about the methodology. > Did you validate the page that the end user would view or the entry point >of the Web site? I've sometimes found that redirects (which can be >implemented in several ways)can mean that these aren't identical and this >can affect the results of validation checks - i.e. you end up analysing a >HTTP redirect message and not the final page which the user sees. > > > Hi Brian Since it's the main entry point like www.db.dk, www.kb.dk etc I have been testing. I don't think there is any HTTP redirect so often. So I am almost 99 % sure that the validation survey shows the final page which the enduser sees. >PS I also think it would be useful to record the MIME type of the entry >point - especially for XHTML documents. > > > You mean here if the XHTML documents has been served as "text/html" or as (application/xhtml+xml)? /Soren
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