RE: Is there a STRICT Browser?

Speaking only for myself, I don't believe there is a browser that is
strictly conforming to the Strict DTDs of either HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0.
Amaya seems to be the closest.

As an alternative, you might consider having your students validate their
code through HTML Tidy before they attempt to run it. The link is available
at http://www.w3.org/ and Tidy is free, which might fit your budget. <g>

Regards,
Tom Murrell
Lead Technical Writer
Alliance Data Systems, Inc.
mailto:tmurell@alldata.net

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> From: 	C.J.Hammond[SMTP:C.J.Hammond@econ.hull.ac.uk]
> Reply To: 	C.J.Hammond@econ.hull.ac.uk
> Sent: 	Friday, January 19, 2001 10:44 AM
> To: 	amaya
> Subject: 	Is there a STRICT Browser?
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> 
> To the members of this list this may be a trivial question, but I will 
> ask it anyway.
> 
> I teach our undergraduate students the basics of HTML as part of a module 
> on "information technology for economists". I get them to do some manual 
> tagging, starting from a simple ascii text file, before letting them 
> explore Amaya. The problem I face is that there appears to be no browser 
> which is strict in its interpretation of HTML tags and students often 
> produce working scripts which are badly constructed.
> 
> I came across Amaya when looking to deal with this problem, but Vincent 
> QUINT's recent remark elegantly summarises the situation. So, is there a 
> browser available which does process only strict HTML?
> 
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> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Vincent QUINT wrote:
> 
> > the source. This does not seem very consistant. The reason is
> > that Amaya tries to be strict in what it produces and tolerant
> > on what it accepts.
> 
> 
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