On 14 Jan 2011, at 18:40, Richard R. Hill wrote: > > Yet, the W3C validation tolls never flag a missing default CSS language > declaration as an issue when validation XHTML.
The W3C Validation Service is a generic SGML/XML validator, not an HTML conformance checker. It doesn't check for things that are not expressed in the DTD (which this isn't, and couldn't be). > Should we make sure our pages declare the default CSS type as we do for > Javascript? If you use style attributes (which you shouldn't) or fiddle the style.* properties with JavaScript (which you shouldn't unless you need to deal with a wide range of values, such as when you are animating), then the spec requires that you do so. (Although this will, IIRC, change for (X)HTML 5). > Like: > > <META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> since you said XHTML. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
