Posted by Bruce Grubb on 04/27/06 17:58

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604262318350.29273@ppepc87.ph.gla.ac.uk>,
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Bruce Grubb wrote:
>
> > On validators, take their results with a grain of salt.
>
> In HTML terms, a "validator" (properly so called) gives a definite
> answer to a definite question: "is this syntax valid according to the
> DTD?". That's all.

Except they don't always do this.

I have has validators flag the following:

<a href="http://validator.w3.org/checklink">an online
Link checker</a>

Bt the HTML standard it is good so why did some validators flag it?
Because of the line break. Bad validator. Bad boy.

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