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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 09:34, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> If you would take a look at the validation errors you would |
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> see that most of them are rather trivial |
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yep, i know |
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> (forgotten to add |
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> empty alt tags to some images that are only used for layout). |
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> The biggest error I found was the absence of the doctype |
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> declaration. The extra attributes on the body tag are for IE, |
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> and should not pose any problem for other browsers as they are |
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> required to ignore unknown attributes. |
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s/they are required/it is recommended/ |
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nb. html 4.01 b.1: |
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"Since user agents may vary in how they handle error conditions, |
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authors and users must not rely on specific error recovery |
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behavior." |
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further |
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"For reasons of interoperability, authors must not "extend" HTML |
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through the available SGML mechanisms (e.g., extending the DTD, |
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adding a new set of entity definitions, etc.)." |
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- -> it's a wrong bad habit to include browser specific attributes |
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and it's wrong to expect them to be ignored by other browsers. |
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> Of course with a very little bit of work the pages could be |
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> made compliant, and that is allways better, but the badness is |
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> not so bad that conqueror should choke on it. |
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this is the wrong view again. i repeat: you simply can not blame |
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browsers for "bad" rendering of not standard compliant pages |
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(i.e. it's *not* a bug). but you can blame them for incorrect |
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rendering of standard compliant pages (i.e. it's a bug). |
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just try to write parsers/renderers without clear specifications |
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and i promise you will miserably fail. i have gone through this. |
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html is rather "adventurous" stuff already - do not let us make |
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it worse. |
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regards |
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dan |
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ps. nuff said ;) at least i hope so, though i have omitted some |
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niceties... i am just a bit tired of explaining things again and |
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again. and yep, i know hoffmann's law etc. ;)) |
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- -- |
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...::: Daniel Mettler | http://www.numlock.ch :::.... |
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