Re: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict //EN ERROR from David Dorward on 2015-09-13 (www-validator@w3.org from September 2015)

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:08:44 +0100
To: 1@dubdubdub.net.nz
Cc: www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <2582B1D6-BFB1-4AF4-A6FC-4C7E199A2FC8@dorward.me.uk>

On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:33, Eric Richards wrote:

> I am thinking if (-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict //EN is not in their catalog
> then why are they suggestion it could be used ?

"They", whoever they are, made a mistake.

The Doctype declaration for HTML 4.01 strict is:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

…without the word Strict in the public identifier.

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

Received on Sunday, 13 September 2015 18:09:27 UTC