Re: Incomplete URI in DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 Transitional Validates ?

On Sep 18, 2009, at 02:50, mrwizkid wrote:

> I would like to to know why does the w3c validator validate a  
> website as being 100% compliant if it has a missing or invalid URI ?

The SGML part of the W3C Validator is concerned with validity  
according to SGML--not on triggering the no-quirks aka. standards mode.

> I have found that whether a website has or does not have a valid URI  
> it still validates i noticed this for HTML 4.01 Transitional  
> DOCTYPES i have not tried others.

This is correct per HTML 4, but it's not fully useful.

> We all know that if there is an invalid or missing URI it will put  
> IE browsers in QuirksMode which means that not all code will work  
> correctly like i have found with some Csscode i used in one of my  
> recent projects. Because of this shouldnt w3c validator NOT make a  
> site 100% compliant i know that for the most part if you had a  
> missing or invalid URI such as the following
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

FWIW, the W3C Validator uses the Validator.nu engine as its HTML5 back  
end but not as its HTML 4 back end. However, the Validator.nu engine  
has the capability of complaining about that doctype (as seen on http://validator.nu/) 
.

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Tuesday, 22 September 2009 12:45:25 UTC