Hi folks, This comment received on another list. - Ian -----Forwarded Message----- > From: D. A. Coyle <dacoyle@dacoyle.com> > To: site-comments@w3.org > Subject: Validator glitch > Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:41:26 -0400 > > > I spent about a half hour helping a friend debug an HTML 4.01 > transitional document that wouldn't validate. The validator kept > reporting a problem with the <head> section being incomplete and to look > for nesting problems. > > The actual problem was very basic, but the validator error message > missed it. There was no <title> tag in the document. It would be helpful > if the W3C validator error messages included something like "missing > <title> tag" in the way it catches a missing doctype statement or > character encoding. -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447Received on Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:51:14 UTC
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