- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:23:53 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > My reading of the facts, puts the blame on the validator: It would not > matter very much if the HTML4 validator had stopped issuing that > warning. If the validator were to stop issuing the warning, and an HTML 4.01-compliant browser were to start treating the ">" as character data (as it should), how would the poor user be able to identify the cause ? > Especially now that HTML5 allows the use of "/>" to close > <img> tags. An HTML 4.01 document, with an HTML 4.01 DOCTYPE, is not, and never will be, subject to HTML 5's rules. > But even per HTML4's rules, it is only a warning and not > an error. In this case, yes, because it occurs within an <img> tag within the body; but if it were a <meta ... /> in the <head> region ? What then ? Philip Taylor
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