- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:35:19 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Kati <kati.pe@comhem.se>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Kati wrote: > It would be nice if the validator just took a glance at the META refresh > directive. No, that would be quite incorrect. A validator is supposed to check the conformance of a document against the DTD it purports to comply with. Nothing more, nothing less. It is quite agnostic about the meaning of any element. > If for no other reason, then that it would give me some kind of > argument to fix this page to work with FireFox as well: Why would META refresh "directives" matter? > http://www.ambk.se/index.html That's quite an impressive demonstration of foolish meta tags, but the values of attributes of such elements should be of no interest to a validator. We might make concessions to meta tags specifying the character encoding, when the encoding cannot be decided on the basis of HTTP headers. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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