Posted by Lars Eighner on 02/09/07 18:05

In our last episode,
<1171042560.884669.292780@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>, the lovely and
talented Luminari broadcast on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

> Sorry, I've been working on this for four days now and I'm a little
> frustrated, however I shouldn't be giving more work to you because of
> that, you're right.

> I have fixed the broken page so that my Ide stopped reporting
> validation errors and posted the new version.

> Broken Page: http://applicationsdev.vettro.com:8080/tmp/Table5.html

> Working Page: http://applicationsdev.vettro.com:8080/tmp/Table3.html

> Thank you for taking the time to be patient with me.

Your first step should have been to validate your documents. You have
invalid doctypes for both. Your public identifier (the stuff in the quotes)
seems to be nonsense as I can find no record of a "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0
strict//en" DTD. These are NAMES. They are not parsable and you cannot
make them do something else by plugging something into them. You must
recite them verbatim. The correct public id for 4.0 strict (assuming that
is what you want) is "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" (although I would advise you
to use 4.01 as 4.0 was dead on arrival and never well-supported by
browsers).

The TITLE element is required. Neither of your documents have it.

STYLE requires the attribute TYPE. Table3.html does not have it.

There may be other problems, but asking about invalid documents here is a
waste of your time because hardly anyone will have the time to try to guess
how various browsers will handle invalid documents.

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