That's a character encoding issue. I am supposed to declare a character encoding in the header, but to me it is a dark art and I have no idea what to declare. A lot of amateur sites forgo this, and it's not really too much of a problem in terms of browser rendering, at least if you stick to english.
The problem on Tom's page is an 'ä' in his post. Again, this isn't really a problem in terms of rendering, but the validator chokes on it because we didn't declare a character encoding in which ä is a valid character.
If you go one page back and put that through the validator you get rid of the illegal character issue and can see the real problems. They are numerous, but again, all sort of picky. These were built when a lot of us were using Navigator 4.0, and much has been deprecated since then. But it all still works. Very invalid though.
I'd love to have validating pages, but god it seems like such drudgery to me.
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The problem on Tom's page is an 'ä' in his post. Again, this isn't really a problem in terms of rendering, but the validator chokes on it because we didn't declare a character encoding in which ä is a valid character.
If you go one page back and put that through the validator you get rid of the illegal character issue and can see the real problems. They are numerous, but again, all sort of picky. These were built when a lot of us were using Navigator 4.0, and much has been deprecated since then. But it all still works. Very invalid though.
I'd love to have validating pages, but god it seems like such drudgery to me.
- jim 7-30-2004 2:54 am