- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:23:53 +0200 (EET)
- To: John Luetke <johnl1479@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, John Luetke wrote: > i have validated by pages by using the HTML 4.01 validator. There is no such thing. There's a markup validator, which you can use, among other things, to run a partial test for syntactic conformance to HTML 4.01 rules. > however, > errors appear concerning the <embed> and <object> tags that are used to > place Flash movies into html pages. Regarding <object>, you need to post the URL for an analysis of what's wrong there. Regarding <embed>, it simply isn't part of HTML 4.01. > i think that this issue should be addressed. Yes, by you. You need to decide first what you want. After that, "Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards", http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay might be useful. Or, if you decide to be practical and just use <embed>, you could still validate your page but you need a customized DTD, see http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/customdtd.html > also, if the only thing that doesn't clear the validation > process, may i still place the XHTML 1.0 check image on my page? Why would you put such a check if you have tried to use HTML 4.01? Well, "Valid HTML!" icons _are_ often deliberate lies, but it's pointless to ask for _permission_ to such usage. If you ask me, do not pollute your pages with icons that are (worse than) cryptic to the great majority of users (see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html#icon ). -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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