Elli Vizcaino wrote: > I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to > validating CSS.
It is off-topic, since it relates to validating markup (XHTML in your case), not CSS "validation". > As of late, my documents have been validating but I > get this warning: "Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File" - I'm > clueless as to what this really means. Can someone please elaborate? The W3C Markup Validator says (when issuing an error message like that): "The Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 encoded files is known to cause problems for some text editors and older browsers. You may want to consider avoiding its use until it is better supported. " That's more or less all you need to know about it. But if you must know more, check the Unicode BOM FAQ: http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM ObCSS: The BOM is best avoided in CSS files as well. The BOM is useful only when the encoding is UTF-16 or UTF-32. Neither of them is useful in web authoring, since browser support is much more limited than support to UTF-8. In UTF-8, the BOM has no role since there is no byte order issue. > I think the default settings in the latest version of Dreamweaver > automatically set the meta content type to: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> That alone does not raise the issue. But if it saves data so that a file starts with the BOM, then the problem has been created, quite pointlessly. Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
