- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:06:25 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Frank Ellermann wrote: >> Not really. Fieldset isn't allowed inside paragraphs in XHTML 1.0 >> either. The only difference is that the error message emitted by >> the validator is confusing in a different way > > It won't bark at the </p> without first reporting that something > is wrong at the <fieldset>. No, it will just tell you to use an object to make things alright instead, which is even more misleading since that usage is forbidden by prose. > Those implicit tags in HTML are hell > for ordinary folks not knowing the DTDs and the SGML rules by heart > - maybe for everybody minus Jukka and you. I have this thing called "a manual" and the ability to memorise the very, very small number of places where a block can contain only inline content. > Of course it's served as text/html, it's designed to work with "any" > browser, almost a decade ago. Any browser that gets HTML 4.01 wrong in the first place. <sigh> > Learning appendix C by heart was easy, my browser made sure that I did. You have a browser that complains when you don't use an XML prolog with a non-UTF-8/16 encoded XHTML as text/html document, no matter what the HTTP headers say? And also flags up stylesheets that aren't referenced by an XML processing instruction? Great, that could be useful. What browser do you use? -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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