A real validator and the validator online at htmlhelp have a bug in a name

by'"`--

As I just learned, almost all of the 8000+ files at my site, which I
thought to be valid html 4.01, have errors:

I use spaces in the a name="xxx xxx" as in
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/readings.htm

and I use numbers as in a name="1" as in
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0101.htm

Neither your validators (online or offline) nor the W3C online
validator caught this.  Why are you all not testing for valid data in
the a name="whatever"?  Is this really irrelevant?  I know that the
ie5-6 properly find the names in such references as

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0101.htm#5

in ie5-6, but that it works does not make it legal html codes, does
it?

I thought I could rely on you to tell me when I have errors.


shalom from Jerusalem,

Shelomo

Received on Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:11:09 UTC