Re: [VE] [108] Line 8, Column 39: there is no attribute "async" from David Dorward on 2019-07-15 (www-validator@w3.org from July 2019)

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:25:30 +0100
To: "Graham Hawker" <ggh@connectedglobe.com>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <90ED6CC1-FADD-487A-BBA6-CF77EF212191@dorward.me.uk>

On 14 Jul 2019, at 18:37, Graham Hawker wrote:

> Error [108]: "/Line 8, Column 39/: there is no attribute "async""

> So why is the validator giving me this error? The document starts 
> with:
> *
> **<!DOCTYPE html      PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">**

The `async` attribute was introduced in HTML 5. It doesn't exist in 
XHTML 1.0.

Received on Monday, 15 July 2019 07:25:55 UTC