"Emlyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Is this a bug or a feature?
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be anything in the HTML spec
> > forbidding whitespace in the TYPE attribute. I think
> > it's neither a bug nor a feature, just a slightly different
> > interpretation of the spec.
>
> But... but... isn't big, bad Mozilla supposed to Lay Down the Law?
Mozilla doesn't make the rules, it follows the rules.
In this case, the spec doesn't say either way is
right or wrong.
> It does within the style sheet. If your style rule is
>
> small ( .... }
>
> Then IE will render that style rule wheras Mozilla will do the
> presumably correct thing and ignore the whole stylesheet up until the
> next ")"
There is a rule against doing that. There is no rule
(that I could find at least) about whitespace in the
TYPE attribute of the STYLE element.
> I've seen lots of sites get tripped up on that one. It's very
> important to get everyone who codes their site by hand to test in
> Mozilla, because IE lets you slip up left right and centre.
Actually, they'd be better off using the W3C's CSS validator,
which will actually tell them what the problems are.
