- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:43:35 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Zed Pobre wrote: > I have found what I think is an interesting bug in the validator at > http://validator.w3.org/. The page at > http://www.math.lsu.edu/valid-check.html has an error in it; it is > missing a closing ">" on an A tag. However, the W3C validator does > not detect this, and declares that the page is valid. As there is now > an unequal count of tag openings to tag closings, I do not see how > that could be the case. For reference, the WDG validator will catch > this error (if you go to http://www.math.lsu.edu/wdg-html-validator/ > and enter the valid-check URL you can see this), but only if the link > is entered directly (it also declares the page valid if you check by > referer). The WDG HTML Validator labels it as a "warning" rather than an "error"; it's valid according to SGML shorthand rules, but browsers may not handle it correctly. The WDG validator only provides warnings when warnings=yes is included in the form data, which happens normally through the "Include warnings" checkbox. With a referer link, you could use <a href="http://www.math.lsu.edu/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=referer&warnings=yes&input=yes">WDG Validator</a> Kind regards, -- Liam Quinn
Received on Monday, 29 September 2003 20:43:30 UTC