Hi,
I've always understood that
Validation concerns the correctness of the syntax of the code,
i.e. if the tags, etc. are properly coded.
Well-formedness concerns the structure of the document,
i.e. where in the document headings , paragraphs, etc go.
Stuart
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On Fri, April 27, 2007 10:09 am,
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Validation concerns the correctness of the syntax of the code,
i.e. if the tags, etc. are properly coded.
Well-formedness concerns the structure of the document,
i.e. where in the document headings , paragraphs, etc go.
You've got those backwards.
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David Dorward
you can do it like this:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
But you should know that this UI pattern is a usability/accessability
disaster, and usually a symptom of poor content organization. I would
encourage better organization in order to avoid these altogether.
On
Right, but now that he knows what they're called, he can use google
to find a link such as this:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/tutorial/
which has a fix for IE, or any of a number of other links on google,
which also have fixes.
Anyways, nothing wrong with IE users getting a
Laura Carlson wrote:
The following may be of interest to web standards folk who haven't been
keeping up with the HTML Working Group and where HTML5 is headed:
On 4/26/07, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [1]:
There are people strongly arguing
that HTML should be a purely presentational
No, really, people do validate their code - they use a validator.
And, people do format their document with of headings, paragraphs etc.,
which if they do correctly is called well formed document.
Having got a well formed document, they may well decide to create a
Webpage by using a Markup
Katrina wrote:
David Hammond suggests that validity is not well-formedness, in that a
document can be well-formed and not valid, but could also be !!! valid
and not well-formed.
http://www.webdevout.net/articles/validity-and-well-formedness#validity_well_formedness
That article is actually
Hi,
sorry, I was thinking of a well formed document in general, rather than
specifically to a (X)HTML/XML markup document.
I seem be at cross purposes.
Stuart
On Sat, April 28, 2007 6:45 pm, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
On 28 Apr 2007, at 18:18:00, Stuart Foulstone wrote:
And, people do format
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
That article is actually only talking about the cases where the W3C
validator has known XML limitations.
Which are removed in the current beta. http://validator-test.w3.org/
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David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/
