And it came to pass that George Hester wrote:
> FOR EXAMPLE:
> I decided to get a validator for my html. To see if there
> was something
> in the html that was keeping Mozilla from playing my wav
> file when the page is opened. It works just fine with IE.
> Doesn't work AT ALL with Mozilla and probably not Netscape
> either. So what do I find out? Well this statememnt in the
> htm:
>
><embed src="files/intel.wav" hidden width="2"
>height="2"><noembed>Get your
> plugin to hear this</noembed>
>
> what do you think the validator says about the attribute src
> here? It says, "there is no attribute SRC for this element
> (in this HTML version)." I got news for you. This is
> wrong. It works just fine in Internet Explorer. Doesn't
> work AT ALL in Mozilla.
>
In deciding what is compliant and what is not, IE is not a
factor. The validator is correct, and you are wrong.
Just because non-compliant code displays correctly in IE does
not mean that the non-compliant code should or even can be
displayed elswhere. IE uses a lot of proprietary hooks to let
it diisplay the bad code rendered by its web-authoring software.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
A cat will assume the shape of its container.
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