Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > >> Actually, I never had that in there until I ran the validator at >> w3.org >> told me to do it... ok actually it told me that my blockquote tag had to >> be within one of the following: "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", or >> "BUTTON". > > That has got to be the strangest thing I've heard. Someone should slap > the author of that validator around a bit. :) > > I'd consider that it gave you a bum steer. :)
It is my understanding that blockquote has no such constraints. Automatic validators do have their (serious) limitations. I have not seen such outright wrong statements, but don't be surprised if problems get wrongly diagnosed, classified, or if some code sends the validator into unrecoverable gibberish behavior. It is also common that validators fail to find errors (ex: missing html, head or body tags). I suppose it might be possible you misread/misinterpreted the original message. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
