- From: Alan C. Baird <ia@apc.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Hi! I'm not a member of this list, but I just wanted to note a couple of validator bugs... at: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp , the documentation suggests: > To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use > & in place of &: > > <a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2">...</a> However, many CGI engines will not accept & - and rather than forcing all those webmasters out there to stop programming in the commonly-accepted fashion, why not change the validator to accept ampersands, when they're embedded in anchor tags? Half my pages won't validate correctly, because I've linked to CGI sites which operate only with ampersands. It seems like we've got the cart before the horse, here. ;-) Also, when providing a direct link to the validation results: http://validator.w3.org/check/referer , the validator generates a "Last modified:" field which has nothing to do with the page being validated. In other words, the validator indicates that any given page is being modified continuously! HTH- Alan C. Baird e: ia@apc.net w: http://www.9TimeZones.com
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