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Re: I think your validator is broken

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:37:27 +0100
To: www-validator-css@w3.org
Message-Id: <1127327848.9163.1.camel@manage.dorward.me.uk.local>

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:23 -0400, dagobah1@optonline.net wrote:
> The CSS Validator gives off really weird results like this one:
> Line : 102 (Level : 1) This property applies to block-level elements. : 
> #autoXML604169604169

With what input data?

> I've noticed MANY sites that use to be 100% CSS valid, now having a huge 
> amounts of warnings (including the W3C website).
> Is the validator broken or something?

It is my understanding that a recent upgrade saw a greatly increased
ability to detect in style sheets things which while syntactically sound
(i.e. not errors) could potentially cause problems anyway. These are
warnings.

-- 
David Dorward                           <http://dorward.me.uk/>
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
                             -- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
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