- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:47:12 +0200
- To: <andynic_nl@yahoo.com>, <www-validator@w3.org>
andynic wrote: > I am developing a simple HTML script. There is no such thing. > In one of the class definitions I had a comment line like this – note > the incorrect closing characters: > /* comment /* Anything inside a <style> element (not tag) is transparent to HTML parsing, except for end tags and possibly (depending on HTML version) constructs that begin with "&". In particular, any internal structure of a style sheet language, including its comment conventions, is outside the scope of markup validation. > The heading in the script is: > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> Though valid, it is incorrect (in the sense of violating HTML specs). It also triggers "Quirks Mode" in popular browsers, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/quirks-mode.html -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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