[Pmwiki-users] Wiki HTML validation issues

[Chris Lott]

[please excuse my earlier empty message]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

 >>> IMO, the problems with the trailing slashes in the <link ... /> and 
<meta ... />
 >>> tags are bugs in the validator.

[...]

 > Some browsers (notably IE) change their interpretation of the document
 > based on the doctype declaration


Well, closing of "empty" elements using an abbreviated close is not 
'valid' html according to the specification, so it isn't a bug, though 
it scarcely matters. More important, I think, is to stick to using the 
proper tag set for the document type declaration. So if HTML is the 
doctype, use HTML tag conventions, otherwise use XHTML.

If you look at: http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/doctype.html you will 
notice that your document declaration has exactly the same properties 
(in terms of putting browsers into standards vs quirks mode) as using 
XHTML 1.0 Transitional without an XML declaration... Presumably this 
would allow you to switch to XHTML proper, if you wish, without changing 
any rendering characteristics and please pedantic validators at the same 
time

c
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Chris Lott