Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:00:17 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bad vinum html page Message-ID: <20021226120017.58f27d73.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> References: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com>
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On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:36:05 +0000 Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> wrote: > > I am surprised why the validator doesn't pick this up. If you > explicitily select `HTML 4.01 Transistional' from the option box > (http://validator.w3.org/), then it shows 12 errors, all to do > with URLs of type: > > "http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=8" > > This can be solved by using single quotes e.g: <a href='...'>, > because the &sektion is thought of as an entity by the parser. > Either that, or the validator is broken -- which is very unlikely. > On that note, it makes me wonder why we use `sektion' and not > 'section'? :-) > > One more thing, we should encode the document char-set type, so that > the validator can work with our documents: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> > I've been meaning to switch generation from HTML to XHTML, but perhaps that needs review by the doceng entity... This may be better from a 'technological' point of view, but may hurt older browsers like Netscape 4*. -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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