Posted by Chaddy2222 on 06/19/07 08:27

On Jun 19, 5:57 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Chaddy2222:
>
> > But what about if the document in question has a full document type
> > (which has the URL) but the document still has errors.
>
> Then it's invalid, but that doesn't mean much per se.
>
> > Would a standards conforming browser not pass the HTML and notice it has
> > errors and render it accordingly.
>
> First, there is no standards-conforming browser. Some browsers are just less
> broken than others.
>
> Second, SGML and classic HTML rules do not specify any particular error
> processing. If a document is not valid or otherwise violates the
> specifications, the specifications do say how it shall be processed. And in
> practice, browsers will apply their tag processing rules and do what the
> author meant, or something slightly different, or something completely
> different.
>
> In XHTML, the idea is more or less that if a document is not valid, it
> should not be rendered at all. The first parse error should be reported, and
> that's it. Your mileage may vary, e.g. depending on whether you serve your
> XHTML as HTML as virtually everyone does (making it effectively tag soup
> HTML with odd ingredients) or as XHTML, which makes IE choke on it.
>
> At no point will Quirks vs. Standards Mode selection come into the picture.
>
> > I always thaught that the web
> > browser would try and correct the rendering of a document if it had
> > errors.
>
> It doesn't really try to correct anything. "Error correction" is an
> euphemism. It will just eat the tag soup the ordinary way. This has nothing
> to do with Quirks Mode, which means acting intentionally wrong in different
> undocumented or poorly document ways
>
In other werds, this entire topic of error correction is more complex
then I originally anticipated and to bring this thread back on-topic,
the OP should validate his HTML Documents as it will make it easier to
find display issue and it wil mean the CSS can be passed correctly and
generally speaking, things will work better.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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