- From: Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:45:41 +0200
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hello, i am very confused about the discussion about valid or well-formed code. Using xhtml 1.1 served as application/xhtml + xml, I am sometimes confrontated in Firefox with the error message : can not parse the page because line XX character XX is not well formed, when I look sometimes the page for a test before validating. And Opera has a different strategy: it shows the page till the line where the code is not well formed, shows an error message and continues to show the complete code of the page! The only possibility to prevent this, is indeed validating the page after every change. The same incorrect code served as text/html will be parsed by IE, Firefox and Opera. It is a very little worth to validate a page. I don't dare to think of that a version of IE will show not-valid xhtml 2.0 correctly in future... but perhaps the WCAG can help to prevent this by requiring valid code at level 1. When it is true that incorrect/ not valid code is handled differently by UAs ( stated in "Beginning XHTML", Wrox Press by eg. Dave Ragget), how can we be sure hat content of invalid pages in a website have always the same order / look as related valid pages, independent on UA and platform? Is not this an accessibilty issue for people who are learning disabled? Greetings Ineke van der Maat
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