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Re: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence
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On Friday 11 October 2002 08H:30, Paul wrote:
> >A nice introduction is at
> >
> >http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/50/index2a.html
>
> Good article.
>
> I have a page that *almost* validates between HTML 4.01 Transitional and
> XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The problem is that HTML *prohibits* end tags
> for "link" and "meta" while XHMTL *requires* end tags for everything.
My understanding was that you either need an end tag or end within the tag.
For example, both of the following are valid:
<hr></hr>
<hr/>
XHTML is probably still one of the biggest current non-standards where actual
browser implementations are concerned. Haven't done any XHTML validation,
though.
Sometimes you can insert an optional empty attribute to get arround really
stubborn browsers (maybe this will get through the XHTML validator as well,
but probably not). Off the top of my head, I don't recall all of the possible
attribute values for link and meta and whether any are optional, so this may
not be very helpful. I don't do that much actual HTML.
>
> I like the rules that XHTML enforces while remaining compatible with
> HTML. IE-only pages that are ill formed will fail miserably! In the
> future I think I will start by validating against XHTML then do a final
> check against the HTML validator. Any compromise will be in favor of HTML.
Interesting... This sounds prudent for the near future. It may get to be a
problem when XHTML compliance is more important than just a nice-to-have.
>
> I always fail the "strict" test. 8^)
It's not personal, just your documents. And they are more easily fixed! -just
kidding.
Cheers,
Jason Nocks
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