Re: JavaScript (was [VE][388] New Error Message Suggestion)

On 3 Jun 2004, at 14:22, Laurent Blume wrote:
> I'm having troubles with the validator, on pages that successfully 
> validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict a few days ago, and now have numerous 
> errors.

I can't find your error message suggestion (you said you were providing 
one in your subject line). Where is it?

> Basically, it seems the validator is now taking JavaScript code, that 
> was previously rightfully ignored.
> Since the validator was updated a few days ago, my guess is that its 
> behaviour changed during that update.

The validator was last updated almost three weeks ago, and that was 
very minor changes.

> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> <script type="text/javascript"><!--
> //------------------------------ JS Variables 
> ------------------------------//

(Snippage above)

Oh dear.

Three things you should probably read.

1. What the HTML 4 specification has to say about comments (it applies 
to XHTML too).
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4>

2. What the XHTML 1.0 specification says about <script> and <style>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8>

3. What Ian Hixie has to say about XHTML served as text/html (which I 
assume you are doing as you aren't complaining about your JavaScript 
not working).
<http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml>

--
David Dorward
      <http://dorward.me.uk/>
<http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>

Received on Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:42:19 UTC