- From: Christopher Werby <cwerby@pipsqueak.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:21:47 -0700
- To: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Mike, That was it exactly! I’d forgotten about the html5 boilerplate .htaccess file that I’m using on several sites. The “chrome=1” bit was in there. Thank you very much! Best, ----------------------- Christopher Werby Pipsqueak Productions, LLC http://www.Pipsqueak.com > On Aug 27, 2015, at 1:37 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote: > > Christopher Werby <cwerby@pipsqueak.com>, 2015-08-26 20:50 -0700: >> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/B5FB6E10-9AC8-4006-909D-2C370C2377FB@Pipsqueak.com> >> >> Hello, >> >> On several of my pages, I’m getting the following error: >> >> Error: X-UA-Compatible HTTP header must have the value IE=edge, was IE=Edge,chrome=1. >> >> But the meta tag that is on the page (http://freelen.org <http://freelen.org/>) is this: >> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> >> >> There’s no “,chrome=1” anywhere on the page. >> >> Is there something wrong with the validator or have I made a mistake? >> It’s certainly possible that it’s the latter! > > Yeah, notice that the message mentions the “HTTP header”, not the meta > element. So, somewhere in your Web-server config, there’s apparently > something set up to send this header: > > X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1 > > And it should instead be sending this: > > X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge > > But you can’t fix it just by editing the HTML source. You instead need to > change the Web-server config (e.g., if you’re using Apache, in a .htaccess > file, or in the system config file for Apache). > > —Mike > > -- > Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike
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