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Article #3Re: Appeal for help
From: Douglas de Lacey
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:17
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:17
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richo wrote: > Paul Rudin wrote: > >>jw35@cus.cam.ac.uk (Jon Warbrick) writes: >>>You have a missing '>' on the end of your 3rd <meta> tag - the one >>>just before the stylesheet link. >>> >>I kind of like xhtml, then editors/validators pick more of these kind >>of things up for you. >> > > > I'd agree with moving to xhtml to enhance this validation, but don't > rely on the W3C validation. 3 very helpful responses, thank you. Yes if I were writing it today I'd certainly use xhtml and one day I'll revise it. > In my Firefox (with various validation > plugins) a simple view source highlights the meta tag and produces the > warning 'line 7 column 1 - warning: <meta> missing '>' for end of tag. > > It doesn't indicate what the upshot of the error would be though. For > that the 'Total Validator' plugin can be configured to provide multiple > screenshots on different systems and using different browsers. That's useful too. Thanks specially to Jon for the sharp eye: hopefully the site is now all fixed. Douglas de Lacey
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