Re: validator broken for http://www.google.co.uk/

On 8 Aug 2009, at 12:53, Sam Mason wrote:
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>  Error  Line 7, Column 741: Attribute "BGCOLOR" is not a valid  
> attribute. Did you mean "bgcolor"?
>
> yet the code it highlights has a lowercase bgcolor:

This is a generic message applied to all unrecognised attributes on  
the off chance that XHTML is being used and the attribute is in  
uppercase.

It seems to be one of the most confusing messages, with numerous  
queries to the mailing list about it.

Can we get it scrapped for the next release of the Validator please?

-- 
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk

Received on Monday, 10 August 2009 08:59:13 UTC