- sick of google this google that
- Posted by Paul Ding on March 26th, 2006
On 25 Mar 2006 23:28:24 -0800, "Chaddy2222"
<rockradio2000@yahoo.com.au> posted something that included:
The proper DOCTYPE for the HTML his pages is written in is
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Draft//EN">
It will NOT get his page to validate correctly unless the validator
recognizes THAT doctype. The one quoted most often in this thread does
not. If, however, he validates his page with HTML-Tidy, it will report
a number of warnings and NO ERRORS.
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- Posted by Toby Inkster on March 27th, 2006
Paul Ding wrote:
But HTML Tidy is not a *validator*.
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- Posted by Paul Ding on March 28th, 2006
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:10:54 +0100, Toby Inkster
<usenet200603@tobyinkster.co.uk> posted something that included:
It *does* validate code as well as pretty-print it.
Software that throws spurious errors is hardly a validator.
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- Posted by Toby Inkster on March 28th, 2006
Paul Ding wrote:
No -- it *checks* the code, but does not *validate* it.
Validation (in an HTML context) is a particular set of checks against a
particular DTD. HTML Tidy doesn't check files against the DTD -- it just
looks for things that the authors thought were bad.
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