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Re: Problem with Netscape 4.7

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From: Dr John Stockton
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:49
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JRS:  In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104220047550.29595-100000@lxplus003.cer
n.ch>, seen in news:demon.homepages.authoring, Alan J. Flavell
<flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote at Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:59:05 :-
>On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Dr John Stockton wrote:

>Your <form> with no action also upsets a genuine HTML validator.
>As well as the #rrggbb value which is lacking quotes.  But you could
>easily have determined that for yourself.

Given that my <form> are needed (in AIUI at least one browser), and that
no action is actually required, what do you suggest for an empty action?

I use TIDY, from W3, as a local validator; it did not complain about
unquoted #00FFFF, though there was at least one case in HTML as opposed
to JS.  Nor did it complain about no form action.
 
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From: Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Netscape 4.7
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:49:15 +0100
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