On June 15, 1999 at 04:03, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> http://validator.w3.org doesn't give MHonArc message pages a thumbs up
The validator is wrong.
> because the first line has to be a DOCTYPE declaration, such as:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>
> I think the comments MHonArc places at the top of the page are invalid
> for any version of HTML above 2.0. This has no practical significance,
> and I understand that a fixed position at the top of the file is
> helpful for machine readability. However, since the format of these
> comments are rumored to be changing (due to spam shielding) in the
> future versions of MHonArc, this might be a window of opportunity.
No change will be made. From the HTML 4.0 specification:
7.1 Introduction to the structure of an HTML document
An HTML 4.0 document is composed of three parts:
1. a line containing HTML version information,
2. a declarative header section (delimited by the HEAD element),
3. a body, which contains the document's actual content. The body may
be implemented by the BODY element or the FRAMESET element.
===> White space (spaces, newlines, tabs, and comments) may appear before
===> or after each section. Sections 2 and 3 should be delimited by the
===> HTML element.
Also,
> nsgmls -p maillist.html
> nsgmls -p threads.html
> nsgmls -p msg00000.html
>
No errors.
--ewh
