On 10 Jun 2010, at 6:13 PM, Kelly wrote:
Hi there,
I have always used your validator to make sure that all the pages
for websites that I design are validated. I'm pretty familiar with
it and have never had any problems until now. The documents I have
been checking are not live websites but .html files that are on my
PC that will go live when they are finished.
Last night I had a document that came up with a warning and 3 errors
- about character encoding. This didn't make any sense to me as this
is something I do first with my documents along with declaring the
doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<title>My webpage</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=
iso-8859-1" />
<link href="w_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
I thought maybe there was a typo - so I went to check one of my
previous websites (that I know validated correctly in the past) but
it came up with the same error. After about an hour of trying to
find out how to fix it - suddenly all my documents validated again -
with no obvious change to the code.
This morning I validated again and I got the green light and all was
fine so I carried on with the rest of my code. I went to check the
new code that I had written and then again the same Character
encoding error, even though I had not changed any of the doctype/
character encoding code pasted above.
It is a very confusing and annoying situation, is there anyone that
can tell me why this is happening?
Gremlins!
Kelly, I'll ask internally to see if there were changes being made
today to the validator.
_ Ian
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Tel: +1 718 260 9447
