Yes a cat will assume the shape of it's container...hmmm....sounds like something Oscar Wilde would have said. Pretty good. Now on point. This inability to disply Art Bell's Webpage by Netscape and Mozilla has been explained further on down this thread. That explanation has given me a new opinion of the validator and I will probably attempt to use it again.
-- George Hester "Christopher Jahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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. > > To reply: xjahnATyahooDOTcom
