RE: DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 + RDFa

From: Taylor, P <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>

> Pim Blokland wrote:
>> The classical W3C validator (at https://validator.w3.org/) has "HTML 4.01 + RDFa"
>> as one of its Document Type options. If the user selects that, it then redirects
>> to the Nu Html Checker. Is that by design?
>> The Nu Html Checker then proceeds to validate the source as HTML5, so that doesn’t
>> end well.
>> My guess is that this doctype should be handled by the classical validator rather
>> than the Nu Checker, or that "HTML 4.01 + RDFa" doesn’t belong in the list.
>>
>> Pim Blokland

> I find that if one attempts to validate by direct input, it re-directs to the NU tool even for HTML 4.01 Strict, which is clearly defective behaviour.
> Philip Taylor

I cannot reproduce that behaviour. Only the HTML 4.01 + RDFa option has that problem for me.

Pim Blokland