Re: Standard compliance is needed

Unfortunately we do not live in a standard world. Half of these things are browser-specific tweaks. When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. -Rasmus On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > I validated http://www.php.net/ with w3c html validation > service, > since I realized there are a _LOT_ of PHP applications, including > very popular PHP applications, that do not produce stanard compliant > HTML... > > Unfotunately, www.php.net is one of them. > Pages should be fixed. > > Here is the validation result for http://www.php.net/ > --------------------------------------------------- > Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an > SGML parser. > > * Line 6, column 47: > > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> > ^ > > Error: element "LINK" not allowed here; check which elements this > element may be contained within > * Line 7, column 6: > > </head> > ^ > > Error: end tag for element "HEAD" which is not open; try removing > the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements > * Line 8, column 16: > > <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" > marginwidth="0" > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN" for this element (in > this HTML version) > * Line 8, column 31: > > <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" > marginwidth="0" > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN" for this element (in > this HTML version) > * Line 8, column 48: > > <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" > marginwidth="0" > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "MARGINHEIGHT" for this element (in > this HTML version) > * Line 8, column 64: > > <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" > marginwidth="0" > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "MARGINWIDTH" for this element (in > this HTML version) > * Line 10, column 16: > > vlink="#000099"> > ^ > > Error: element "BODY" not allowed here; check which elements this > element may be contained within > * Line 12, column 35: > > ... spacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="48" > width="100%"> > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "HEIGHT" for this element (in this > HTML version) > * Line 25, column 57: > > <form method="post" action="/search.php" > class="thin"> > ^ > > Error: element "FORM" not allowed here; possible cause is an > inline element containing a block-level element > * Line 38, column 35: > > ... ifs/small_submit_white.gif" border="0" width="11" > height="11 ... > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "BORDER" for this element (in this > HTML version) > * Line 38, column 50: > > ... c="/gifs/small_submit_white.gif" border="0" width="11" > height="11" ALT ... > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "WIDTH" for this element (in this > HTML version) > * Line 38, column 50: > > ... ll_submit_white.gif" border="0" width="11" > height="11" > ALT="search" a ... > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "HEIGHT" for this element (in this > HTML version) > * Line 99, column 35: > > ... <td bgcolor="#cccccc" background="/gifs/checkerboard.gif" ... > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "BACKGROUND" for this element (in > this HTML version) > * Line 129, column 27: > > <hr noshade size="1" color="#000000" /> > ^ > > Error: there is no attribute "COLOR" for this element (in this > HTML version) > * Line 301, column 32: > > <script language="javascript"> > ^ > > Error: required attribute "TYPE" not specified > * Line 410, column 35: > > ... Last updated: <url-minder-ignore>Tue Jun 11 20:53:50 2002 ... > ^ > > Error: element "URL-MINDER-IGNORE" not defined in this HTML version > > Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional. > > If you use CSS in your document, you should also check it for validity > using the W3C CSS Validation Service. >