- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:25:51 +0100
- To: "Henk-Jan.van.Tuyl" <henk-jan.van.tuyl@hotpop.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
"Henk-Jan.van.Tuyl" wrote: > > Hello, > > When my webpage was "checked and found to be valid HTML 4.01 Transitional", I > added the following lines to my page, using copy & paste, as advised by the "Validation results" page: > > <p> > <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img border="0" > src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" > alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" height="31" width="88"></a> > </p> > > This doesn't work (of course I tested this with "referer" replaced with the address of my page;after some experimenting it appeared that the href should be: > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=<referer> > > Many people will also appreciate some explanation about replacing <referer> with the page's address. But "referer" isn't a metanotion, and is therefore not intended to be replaced; it is a literal, which should be replicated as-is. Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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