- From: Frank Ellermann <Frank.Ellermann@t-online.de>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:14:56 +0200
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> you mean the lack of value="..." attributes in <option>
> elements inside the <select id="doctype" name="doctype">
> element.
Yes. I tried to verify this locally replacing the original
form by a simple <form action="http://localhost/check">.
But that worked as expected, tests with other browsers worked
too, and finally even tests with Netscape 3.x worked on other
documents. My first guess (HTML 3.2) was completely wrong.
> I don't think there is any browser that really complies with
> HTML 3.2.
No comment... ;-) The problem was not the HTML, the browser,
or the POST, it's a weird condition in the validated document
resulting in an error message...
Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified!
...not exactly what I expected after manually selecting the
DOCTYPE. I've now published the "fatal" document as...
<URL:http://frank.ellermann.bei.t-online.de/home/test/x1.htm>
...and the corresponding validator URL with fatal error is...
<URL:http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffrank.ellermann.bei.t-online.de%2Fhome%2Ftest%2Fx1.htm&charset=iso-8859-15+%28Latin+9%29&doctype=HTML+3.2&verbose=1>
Of course the document is invalid, that's not the question.
I found it in a mail, and because my browser refuses to display
it I tried to validate it.
Bye, Frank
Received on Tuesday, 12 August 2003 03:20:37 UTC