- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:12:27 -0500
- To: "John F. Whitehead" <jfw@cisco.com>
- CC: www-html-editor@w3.org
John F. Whitehead wrote: > > I have found a couple of errors in the HTML 4.0 Specification: Thank you for your careful reading of the document. > > 1) Following the link for section 3 of the specification crashes Netscape: > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html> > > This is true with the standalone Netscape Navigator 4.03 for Solaris > and with the standalone Netscape Navigator 4.04 for Macintosh. Links > for all other sections do not have this problem. > > There may be a problem with the style sheets, since when I load up just > the HTML from my local disk, there is no problem. I followed the link with NN 4.03 on Linux without incident. Lynx also works. I suspect this is a Netscape Navigator problem. > 2) In section 3.3.3, the word "elements" is duplicated. The sentence, > under item #3, reads "Element types that are designed to have no > content are called empty elements elements." Thank you, I will add this to the errata sheet. This error is disconcerting because I used a script to check for doubled words and it didn't see these two.... > 3) There are missing attributes for the <a> anchor element on line > line 53 of sgmltut.html: > > <h2><a name="h-3.1">3.1</a> <a>Introduction to SGML</a></h2> > > and on line 117: > > <h2><a name="h-3.2">3.2</a> <a>SGML constructs used in HTML</a></h2> Although the anchors without attributes are certainly uninteresting, they are not illegal (the specification allows them explicitly in section 12.2). Thanks again, Ian -- Ian Jacobs / 401 Second Ave. #19G / New York, NY 10010 USA Tel/Fax: (212) 684-1814 Email: ibjacobs@panix.com
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