- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:46:02 +0300 (EEST)
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Terje Bless wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Please don't. You gain nothing but confusion among some people. > <http://validator.w3.org:8001/> It claims that my main page http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ is not valid, claiming that h1 is not allowed without a preceding <body>. It also claims that some end tags must not be omitted because "OMITTAG NO was specified". This is undescribably absurd. It ain't no 1st of April! > If the explanation is not to your liking — «Who the heck *writes* this > stuff?!?!» — you can now submit your Nobel-nominate suggested replacement text > through a handy-dandy mailto: link right next to the error (make sure to note > the error number!). No reason to constrain yourself to Weblogs any more... Sorry, it seems that some virus inserted garbage text into your message. > When the W3C Markup Validator is running in «Fussy Parsing» mode it will > complain about all sorts of things that are technically legal in HTML, but > which is known to be problematic in practice and probably not what you wanted. It's not just "complaining". It's claiming that a valid document is invalid. And this is apparently intentional. Hence, it does not even try to be a validator any more. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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