Re: error code when insering a video using video tag

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*With Amaya 11.4.4 under Win7 with this code:*

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  <title>Nuovo</title>
  <meta name="generator" content="Amaya, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">
</head>

<body>
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
  <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  <source src="movie.webm" type="video/webm">
  <object data="movie.mp4" width="320" height="240">
    <embed src="movie.swf" width="320" height="240">
  </object>
</video>

</body>
</html>

*I get no errors by Amaya (also saving and reloading)*


*With this code*

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
  <title>Nuovo1</title>
  <meta name="generator" content="Amaya, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" />
</head>

<body>

<video width="320" height="240" controls>
  <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  <source src="movie.webm" type="video/webm">
  <object data="movie.mp4" width="320" height="240">
    <embed src="movie.swf" width="320" height="240">
  </object>
</video>

</body>
</html>

I get

*** Errors/warnings in C:\Users\Cristiano\Documents\Nuovo1.html
  line 13, char 40: not well-formed (invalid token)


2013/1/5 Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>

> Cristiano Guglielmetti, Fri, 4 Jan 2013 20:44:37 +0100:
> > Probably you left the doctype default declaration of Amaya, which is
> XHTML.
> > When you create the new document you should declare it as HTML
> > Transitional into New Document tab view. Indeed, if you have set it
> > as HTML Transitional you will not have errors by Amaya:
>
> This seems to be incorrect — Amaya still reports that <video> is an
> unknown/unsupported element even if the document is a a HTML4
> transition kind of type.
>
> Leif H Silli