- From: Robert Stampfli <nsa@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:26:43 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>, Robert Stampfli <nsa@colnet.cmhnet.org>, www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:07:37AM +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, David Dorward wrote:
> >
> > As for:
> >
> > <!-- The following line contains an error the validator does not
> > catch [ no close bracket on 'tr' ] (second of two) -->
> > </td> </tr><tr ><td class=date>9
> >
> > I fail to see the missing ">".
>
> Don't rely on Mozilla's source viewer.
>
> But in any case, that's not an error. It is perfectly valid to omit the
> ">" character if the next character is a tag-open-character ("<").
Interesting. (This certainly falls into the "I learn something
new every day" department.) But, given that several browsers
handle it quite badly, shouldn't it at least elicit a warning?
Rob
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