Re: A loophole in the validator?

At 09:26 PM 01/26/2000 GMT, Pierre Far wrote:
>I am sure that you must have disscussed this before, but one could use 
>javascript to create non-standard HTML documents and they would still 
>validate as strict HTML.

Sure.  Because at the time the page is downloaded, it's valid HTML.

>So what is to stop a devious webmaster from using this and tricking the 
>users?

Maybe the fact that the devious webmaster doesn't get anything out of
"tricking the users" and thus it's not worth the trouble is enough of
a disincentive.

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Received on Wednesday, 26 January 2000 21:44:17 UTC