Re: Passed validation with wrong markup....

On 4 Sep 2007, at 08:45, NOWAR.MEANS.PEACE@GMAIL wrote:
> When looking in the source I saw that the links had a BACKSLASH in  
> it, instead of a SLASH.
>
> So why is it that the w3c validator gives a passed validation for a  
> sloppy code?
Because, in HTML, the value of the href attribute is allowed to  
contain backslash characters. It might not mean what was intended,  
but that doesn't make it invalid.

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Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2007 12:35:53 UTC