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Posted by EN on 05/03/06 22:30
"Jim Higson" <jh@333.org> wrote in message
news:o4KdnRZ64dKTcsXZRVny0A@eclipse.net.uk...
> EN wrote:
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>> So,
>>
>> I have Visual Studio 2005 and did some HTML makeup, I hired a designer to
>> do the graphics, and after that, I check my site on conformance.
>>
>> Guess what? Visual Studio sais: everything OK, but W3C says that
>> <link> tags should not be closed by /> (empty tag) nor by </link> so a
>> <link
>> [tags]> should stay as it is.
>
> the /> closing is for CHTML. Maybe you're using HTML?
>
>> instead it wants a <meta> tag to be closed by </meta> and not by />
>> (empty
>> tag)
>>
>> I must say, Visual Studio is consequent, it votes for closing through />
>> (both the meta as the link tag).
>
> Suprising given that Microsoft's browser doesn't support XHTML.
why do you think that? IE6 has no problems, and IE7 works fluently too.
I tried IE6 on Windows 2000 and NT4 as well and it just works on my xhtml
compliant site.
>> So guys and girls, is W3C kidding or what? If I stick to conformance, I
>> get a very inconsequent non-xhtml of the contents of the <head> tag...
>> but
>> W3C validates it as OK.
>
> If you want the document to be HTML, close using </foo>
> If you want the document to be XHTML, you can use either.
>
> If you don't want your code mangled, use a different editor.
True, I just can ignore the message.
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