- From: Mercurial notifier <nobody@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:28:21 +0000
- To: markup-validator updates <www-validator-cvs@w3.org>
changeset: 3258:78e60f589ddd
user: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
date: Thu Nov 17 00:24:10 2011 +0200
files: htdocs/docs/errors.html share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg
description:
Improve "NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES" warning explanation.
The behavior is not exclusive to strict doctypes nor HTML 4.01.
diff -r 70128d3804c4 -r 78e60f589ddd htdocs/docs/errors.html
--- a/htdocs/docs/errors.html Mon Nov 14 22:45:43 2011 +0200
+++ b/htdocs/docs/errors.html Thu Nov 17 00:24:10 2011 +0200
@@ -650,12 +650,12 @@
<dt id="ve-247">247: NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES</dt>
<dd><div class="ve mid-247">
<p>
- The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two different ways,
- depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For HTML 4.01 Strict, the '/'
- terminates the tag <FOO (with an implied '>'). However, since many
- browsers don't interpret it this way, even in the presence of an HTML 4.01 Strict
- DOCTYPE, it is best to avoid it completely in pure HTML documents and
- reserve its use solely for those written in XHTML.
+ The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two different
+ ways, depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For HTML 4.01 and earlier,
+ the '/' terminates the tag <FOO (with an implied '>'). However,
+ since many browsers don't interpret it this way, even in the presence of
+ a "Strict" DOCTYPE, it is best to avoid it completely in pure HTML
+ documents and reserve its use solely for those written in XHTML.
</p>
</div>
<p>
diff -r 70128d3804c4 -r 78e60f589ddd share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg
--- a/share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg Mon Nov 14 22:45:43 2011 +0200
+++ b/share/templates/en_US/error_messages.cfg Thu Nov 17 00:24:10 2011 +0200
@@ -1224,12 +1224,12 @@
verbose <<.EOF.
<div class="ve mid-247">
<p>
- The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two different ways,
- depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For HTML 4.01 Strict, the '/'
- terminates the tag <FOO (with an implied '>'). However, since many
- browsers don't interpret it this way, even in the presence of an HTML 4.01 Strict
- DOCTYPE, it is best to avoid it completely in pure HTML documents and
- reserve its use solely for those written in XHTML.
+ The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two different
+ ways, depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For HTML 4.01 and earlier,
+ the '/' terminates the tag <FOO (with an implied '>'). However,
+ since many browsers don't interpret it this way, even in the presence of
+ a "Strict" DOCTYPE, it is best to avoid it completely in pure HTML
+ documents and reserve its use solely for those written in XHTML.
</p>
</div>
.EOF.
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