On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:11 AM, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Kristine Cummins > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Can someone tell me how to fix this W3C warning – I'm new to > understanding this part. > >> <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beverlywilson.com%2F> > >> > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:15:19 -0400, Nikita The Spider replied: > > Kristine, > > If your server is already specifying the character set (a.k.a. encoding) > then you don't > > need to do so in your HTML. In fact, I'd recommend against doing so, ... > > The META tag is needed when serving the page from the hard drive - > for example, when the page is saved for viewing later. (The hard drive > does not send HTTP headers.)
That's a good point that I should have mentioned, and I'm glad you brought it up. However, IMO this need is often overstated. Browsers are pretty good at guessing the encoding when they need to. I wouldn't rely on browsers guessing correctly for public pages, but I think the clutter of having duplicate encoding declarations usually outweighs the benefit. Of course, ideally one looks at one's pages using a local Web server. I think Windows & Linux come with one preinstalled and I know that OS X does, so this should be within the reach of most folks. Cheers -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
