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From: Nick Kew
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:45

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104220047550.29595-100000@lxplus003.cern.ch>, one of infinite monkeys
	at the keyboard of "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> hath written:
 
> Table summary is definitely in HTML4.01. It is optional in the DTD,
> but needed according to WAI.
> (chop)
> I don't know where the hon Usenaut gets his validation from, but it
> seems he's being sold short.

Either that or he was practicing, perhaps overzealously, the virtue
of brevity in his posting.  Perhaps he just omitted to mention that
he was using some optional extras, over and above formal validation.
(as offered in, for example, Page Valet).

> Your <form> with no action also upsets a genuine HTML validator.
> As well as the #rrggbb value which is lacking quotes.

On second thoughts, maybe not.

-- 
Nick Kew

Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website.
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From: nick@fenris.webthing.com (Nick Kew)
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Subject: Re: Problem with Netscape 4.7
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