Re: Validation problem

by Donna Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>

Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:43:58 +0100
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Cc:	DevlinPeterW(at)JohnDeere.com
References:	deere 4ax
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A quick update on my original post, on the off chance that anyone out
there is marginally interested... :)

First, in the course of an email conversation with another list member
about this issue, I realised that I was less than clear in my original
post.  I didn't mean that moving the first comment to after the
opening <.html> tag would result in the page *passing* validation.
All I meant was that that seemed to be required in order for the
validator to be able to parse the file in the first place, rather than
choking on it and throwing up the message about it being content-type
"text/plain".

Testing further, though, we then found that this appears to be an
Internet Explorer specific issue (surprise surprise), since, when I
tried uploading the original source code file to the validator using
Opera, the validator was able to parse it OK as "text/html".

So, slightly weird, but something to bear in mind if you use the
"upload file" option with the W3C validator.

Regards,
Donna

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:23:04 +0100, Donna Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>I followed a hunch, and removed the comment that is situated before
>the opening <.html> tag, and that did the trick.  Kind of makes sense
>- it doesn't know how to interpret the content unless it gets the
><.html> tag before anything else.
>
>Cheers,
>Donna
>
>On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:14:57 -0500, "Devlin Peter W"
><DevlinPeterW(at)JohnDeere.com> wrote:
>
>>Good Morning,
>>
>>I am working on a template for our group, tweaking it a little bit. The file validates with the WDG and the CSE Validators. I'll be switched if it won't validate on the W3C's.
>>Error message is "content type is text/plain, which is not currently supported by this service." I'm validating by file upload rather than url - but have never had the problem before.
>>The url is: http://www.tut.pspug.org/tutadmin/tuttemplate.htm
>>The doctype is <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> which still validates but I've even substituted the newer: 
>><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>>   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>>Any ideas?
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Pete
>>Assistant Administrator
>>Paint Shop Pro Users Group
>>http://www.pspug.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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