Re: validator.w3.org and XHTML

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:25:03 +0100, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>  
wrote:
> Because in many cases, including the cases that the NOTE is targeted at,  
> the server delivers content based upon the capabilities of the client.   
> Unless there is a way to have the validator masquerade as various types  
> of clients, then it will necessarily not see the content delivered in  
> the way the author intended.  For example, if I had a way to tell the  
> validator "look like IE and validate this page" then it would get  
> text/html back from my server and act accordingly.  If I could also say  
> "look like Opera and validate this page" then it would get  
> application/xhtml+xml and act accordingly.  I don't think I can do that  
> now.

That seems like a separate issue unless you think there is no problem if  
the validator gets text/html content that contains <title/> instead of  
<title></title>.


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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Received on Monday, 8 December 2008 16:36:12 UTC