Re: An HTML validator error?

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