- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:09:48 -0400
- To: site-comments@w3.org
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001, Aaron W. Silver wrote: > > Out of curiosity, how exactly is the XHTML validator getting past the > > homepage for W3C? The basic spec for XHTML should not allow it to > > validate the page for a number of reasons: > > > > Markup tags are in upper and lower case (consistancy). > > Attributes are not quoted (lots of them). > > Terminated elements are not adheared to (li tags). > > Non-Terminated empty tags are present (img, br and hr). > > Could you elaborate a little and give us example of these bugs? As far > as I can see, the homepage doesn't have such issues. Could you attach > the html file you get at www.w3.org? FYI: Here what the problem was: when you save a HTML document with IE 5.5, IE modifies it and makes it invalid. That's where the confusion came from. Dom -- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux - http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/ W3C's Webmaster at MIT mailto:dom@w3.org - tel: +1-617-258-8143
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