From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 26 14:36:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6261837B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE58243EEC for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:36:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 09BF65194A; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:06:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:06:12 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hiten Pandya Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Farhad Saberi Subject: Re: Bad vinum html page Message-ID: <20021226223611.GB21641@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 26 December 2002 at 16:36:05 +0000, Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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? > > >> 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: , > 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

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^ > 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: > > > 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