- From: Richard Bingham <R.Bingham@ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:32:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
AFAIK the use of a space character in a URI is illegal, and although Internet Explorer copes with pages containing space characters in links, Netscape doesn't. So I might have expected the Validator to spot pages containing these space characters and report them as an error. However http://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/ validates as "no errors", yet contains <IMG SRC="spf heading colour.GIF" (etc.) which results in Netscape failing to display that image, although IE can see it. To add to my woes, that same page fails to work properly on a Mac using either Netscape or IE: I can only use the drop down menus on that page by using a PC. I guess it is unfair to expect the Validator to detect a page that fails on Macintoshes, but nevertheless it lulls the designer of that page into a sense of false security if his page shows no errors in the Validator. Richard
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