Re: Is the CSS validator working correctly for CSS only validation?

John December wrote:
> 
> I used http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html,
> to validate this CSS file:
> 
> http://www.december.com/html/demo/mystyle.css

The validator says:
I/O Error: Unknown mime type : text/plain 

Use text/css for CSS documents.

> The validator does not seem to work correctly. This file, based on
> other validation, does seem correct; but the CSS validator comes up
> with error messages that do not get displayed correctly, I can see
> them using the view source option of the browser.
> 
> This css file does validate if I send the URI of the HTML document
> which references it:
> 
> http://www.december.com/html/demo/mystyle.html

Actually, it shouldn't work but It seems that I forgot to check
some mime types in the code ...

Philippe

Received on Thursday, 10 May 2001 15:49:32 UTC