[Bug 912] New: Incorrectly stating error of unencoded URL

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=912

           Summary: Incorrectly stating error of unencoded URL
           Product: Validator
           Version: 0.7.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: check
        AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
        ReportedBy: rpocklington@netratings.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


In the  <option> and <td> tags of a HTML page, if text is found
starting with 'http://' (for example, 'http://goto&community.com') the 
validator will identify these as errors, stating the URL should be encoded.  

They should not be listed as errors because:

a) they are not links

b) they are to be presented to the user, so you would NOT want to encode
them as you would a similar href link.

NOTE:  There may be other similar instances where this occurs, these are
the only ones I have found so far.  My suggestion is that the validator
ONLY checks addresses which are specifically used as links in the HTML page.



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Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:06:43 UTC