Re: [timj@gtk.org: link validator error]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 22:26, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> > Seems to be a misconfiguration/bug in the link checker
> 
> Yep, I suspect a bug, will take a look.  I've logged this as #138 at
> <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=138>.

Turns out to be that this was due to a <base HREF=""> at
<http://beast.gtk.org/mirror/gnome-news/946276088.html>.  This is now
handled (in version 3.6.2.6 in CVS) as if the base tag didn't exist at
all, which is how browsers seem to handle it (checklink is/was already
pretty tolerant with bad markup).

But if there's nothing to be put into the base href, the tag really
shouldn't be there at all.

-- 
\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi

Received on Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:48:29 UTC