Re: Unclosed IMG tag bug?

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Nir Dagan wrote:

> The issue with the IMG element was:
> 
> <A><IMG alt="foo" src="foo"</A>
> 
> The closing > is missing in the IMG tag.
> 
> This is a form of shorttag which is valid 
> but browsers don't like, so better not use it. 
> It is called "closed start tag."
> 
> So there is no bug with the validator here.
> 
> See the HTML spec at the notes section:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.htmlh-B.3.7

Thanks for the reply. (I missed the absense of the closing '>'
the first time I read this report.)

This type of error is typically caught by a lint-style program
like Weblint:

    http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~neilb/weblint/

An SGML-based validator will correctly not flag this as an error,
but it's a useful thing for authors to be aware about anyway.
This is why I have a "use Weblint" option as part of the validation
service.

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