- From: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:36:43 +0100 (BST)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: Ole Moller <olm@chaos.dk>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Terje Bless wrote: > On 29.09.99 at 05:11, Ole Moller <olm@chaos.dk> wrote: > > >1) I was one </td> short at a moment but the validator didnt complain. > > End tag for TD is optional. You are implicitly closing it. Practically speaking, this doesn't appear to work for nested tables in Real Browsers, where </td> must be present to give the desired output. (Yes, nested tables are a display hack and a great way to crash browsers. But ye gods, they're common.) If tables are nested, IMO it would be sensible for the validator to be more stringent or issue a warning here. L. > It's possible the validator could/should be improved to handle the > situation better, but the above to errors are "correct" AFAIK, so the reply > is "don't do that then". :-) > > > Can anyone think of a better way to report these things? <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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