Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:06:12 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Farhad Saberi <farhad.saberi@mail.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: Bad vinum html page Message-ID: <20021226223611.GB21641@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> References: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com>
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On Thursday, 26 December 2002 at 16:36:05 +0000, Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Netscape 4.9 is from the time when DIV tags were only used > extensively on "IE only" sites; but now its part of the HTML > standard. In fact, as I mentioned, >> According to my dated HTML book, only Netscape supports this >> tag--possibly differently? > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > >> can't work out what kind of document it is, so it's probably worth >> somebody with more SGML-foo than me to put some effort into making >> the pages standards-compliant. > > 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. Hmm. THe use of & in URLs is pretty common. You'd think that the standards people would have made some judgment on that. > Either that, or the validator is broken -- which is very unlikely. FWIW, the validator and tidy aren't in agreement. tidy creates XHTML with attributes which the validator doesn't understand: 1. Line 32, column 15: value of attribute "id" invalid <h2><a id="1" name="1">Sunday, 1 December 2002</a></h2> ^ > On that note, it makes me wonder why we use `sektion' and not > 'section'? :-) Written by a German? > 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"> Agreed. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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