- From: Jochem Heicke <jhl@surfeu.de>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 23:39:26 +0200
- To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce@obviously.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
I support this suggestion, as I have eyperienced those misleading
messages caused by a simple typing error in a tag
eg. <TABEL ....
It complains almost everything including </TABLE> and the
cause of the error is such hard to find.
Jochem Heicke
Bryce Nesbitt schrieb:
>
> The validator first checks attributes, then the element. This means if I do something
> like:
>
> <csobj w="208" h="77" t="Button">
>
> I get a long series of complaints about each attribute ("w", "h", "t") before
> I find that the validator actually does not understand the <csobj>. An
> improvement would be to check the element FIRST, and give just one error message.
>
> I've had trouble getting web page authors to use the validator, because of issues
> like this (spurious error messages -- especially because of valid Javascript).
> A way to be less strict might improve usage.
>
> -Bryce
>
>
> Document type: HTML 4.01 Transitional
>
> Line 47, column 30:
> ... <p><csobj w="208" h="77" t="Button" cl="images/New ...
> Error: there is no attribute "H" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)
>
> Line 47, column 37:
> ... <p><csobj w="208" h="77" t="Button" cl="images/NewFi ...
> Error: there is no attribute "T" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)
>
> Line 47, column 49:
> ... csobj w="208" h="77" t="Button" cl="images/NewFiles/start_on ...
> Error: there is no attribute "CL" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)
>
> Line 47, column 83:
> ... " t="Button" cl="images/NewFiles/start_on.gif" ht="images/NewFiles/sta ...
> Error: there is no attribute "HT" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)
>
> Line 47, column 114:
> ... s/start_on.gif" ht="images/NewFiles/start_off.gif"><a href="index2.htm ...
> Error: element "CSOBJ" not defined in this HTML version (explanation...)
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