- From: Ville Skytta <ville@hutz.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:27:42 +0000
- To: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/validator/htdocs/docs
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv2982/docs
Modified Files:
Tag: validator-0_6_0-branch
help.html
Log Message:
Grammar fixes from Andrew Robinson and some from yours truly.
Index: help.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/validator/htdocs/docs/help.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12.2.16
retrieving revision 1.12.2.17
diff -u -d -r1.12.2.16 -r1.12.2.17
--- help.html 9 Apr 2004 05:56:33 -0000 1.12.2.16
+++ help.html 29 Apr 2004 06:27:40 -0000 1.12.2.17
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
<a href="#faq-ampersand">The validator complains about "&" in my URLs!</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="#faq-javascript">The validator complains about something in my Javascript!</a>
+ <a href="#faq-javascript">The validator complains about something in my JavaScript!</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#faq-linkandmeta">Why doesn't the validator like my <link ... />
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
The author of the Web page you come from once used our service
to <em>validate</em> that page, and the page passed validation.
The author was then authorized to use the icon on that page, as
- aa claim of <em>validity</em>. The icon is used as a link back to
+ a claim of <em>validity</em>. The icon is used as a link back to
the validation service, so that the author can <em>revalidate</em>
whenever necessary. This is why, by clicking on the icon, you
followed a link to the current <em>validation results</em> for
@@ -194,16 +194,16 @@
sure your pages are legal HTML. The best way to do that is by
running your documents through one or more HTML validators.
</p>
- <p>A <a href="why.html">lenghtier answer</a> to this question is
+ <p>A <a href="why.html">lengthier answer</a> to this question is
also available on this site if the explanation above did not satisfy
you.
</p>
<h4 id="who-does-validator">Who owns/maintain the Markup Validator?</h4>
- <p>The Markup Validator is Maintained at <acronym
+ <p>The Markup Validator is maintained at <acronym
title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> by W3C staff and
- benevolent collaborators, who receive a lot of help from contributors.
- (Read the <a href="../about.html#credits">full credits</a>)
+ benevolent collaborators, who receive a lot of help from contributors
+ (read the <a href="../about.html#credits">full credits</a>).
</p>
<h4 id="others">What other validators are there?</h4>
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
</p>
<h4 id="errors">What are these error messages?</h4>
- <p>The output of the Markup Validator may be hard to decypher for
+ <p>The output of the Markup Validator may be hard to decipher for
newcomers and experts alike, so we are maintaining a <a
href="errors.html">list of error
messages and their interpretation</a>, which should help.
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
</p>
<p>
We encourage you to use the XHTML code below (or its HTML equivalent),
- but you may use a different code to integrate the icon within your webpage
+ but you may use a different code to integrate the icon within your web page
as long as the icon is used as a link to revalidate the Web page it is in.
Sample code is as follows:
</p>
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
"<a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html">common validation problem</a>"
</p>
- <h4 id="faq-javascript">The validator complains about something in my Javascript!</h4>
+ <h4 id="faq-javascript">The validator complains about something in my JavaScript!</h4>
<p>Most probably, you should read the
<a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#script">script section</a>
of WDG's excellent
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
which is not allowed in the <head> element. Since </head><body>
is optional in HTML (again, <strong>not</strong> in XHTML), it is silently inserted,
thus head-only elements like meta and style as well as
- "</head>" and "<body>", which may apear only once, become false.
+ "</head>" and "<body>", which may appear only once, become false.
</p>
<p>(explanation courtesy of Christoph Päper)</p>
@@ -459,18 +459,18 @@
it to validate whatever page the browser last visited. The "valid" icons on some Web page usually
point to the validation of the page using this feature.</p>
- <p>Unfortunately, some zealous "security software" or Web proxies strip the <code>referer</code>
+ <p>Unfortunately, some zealous "security software" or Web proxies strip the referrer
information from what the browser sends. Without this information the validator is not able to
- find what the URI of the document to validate is, and gives the same error message as when it os
+ find what the URI of the document to validate is, and gives the same error message as when it is
given a type of URI it does not understand.</p>
<p><strong>How to fix</strong>:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Check that it is indeed a referer issue. The validator should have redirected you to
+ <li>Check that it is indeed the <code>Referer</code> issue. The validator should have redirected you to
<code>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=</code>. Otherwise, check the address you have given the validator.</li>
<li>The validator can not fix this issue. You will have to (ask your administrator to) reconfigure
- whichever zealous software is stripping this referer info.</li>
- <li>If you have a link on your page using the "referer" feature, you could replace them with the
+ whichever zealous software is stripping this referrer info.</li>
+ <li>If you have a link on your page using the "/check/referer" feature, you could replace them with the
a link to the validator without this feature, e.g. <code><code>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.example.com</code></li>
<li>If you have no control over the page or annoying software, simply append the address of the page you wanted validated
to the <code>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=</code> address.</li>
Received on Thursday, 29 April 2004 02:45:15 UTC