- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:29:58 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Frank Leahy <leahy@lycos-inc.com>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Frank Leahy wrote: > Right. The purpose of running the validator is to find problems during > development, and dropped </td> and </tr> tags are the kinds of things that > need to be caught because they could be indicators of bigger problems with > the site. And running Tidy, as Masayasu has suggested, doesn't help at all. You could use XHTML (which requires the ending tags) or use a custom DTD based on HTML 4 but with </td> and </tr> required. > And while someone's at it it would be great if it were possible to turn off > the &entity; checking in urls -- no one needs to be told that > "/foo.asp?a=b&c=d" has an uknown entity &c (and the suggestion to replace > all & with & in urls not the correct response :-) Why is that not the correct response? If you have "/foo.asp?a=b§ion=2", then Netscape 3.x will treat "§" as the section sign, which probably isn't the intended result. Using "/foo.asp?a=b&section=2" is both valid and more reliable among browsers. Browsers translate "&" to "&" before sending the request to the server. -- Liam Quinn
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