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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Apr 1999.
Re: FAQs: What to do?

Re: FAQs: What to do?

Martin Atkins wrote:
>...
> ||5. Who's going to have a copy of these documents on their site?
>...
> |It's sign up time!

Oh good. I've just got back from my holiday, ready to attack the FAQ
again ...

> I now have a copy of the ADA as it stands on my three mirrors:
> http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ada/ (Langley, UK)
> http://website.lineone.net/~martin.atkins/ada/ (Somewhere UK)
> http://martweb.hypermart.net/ada/ (Seattle, USA but has popups!)

Noted and to be included in the next draft ...

> I tried running the W3C Validator over it but I couldn't make head nor
> tail of it's response... it said that every single tag I used doesn't
> exist... we're talking <HTML>, <HEAD>, <LINK>, <BODY>, <P>,
> everything. AFAICT the site is as HTML-valid as is possible, if not
> perfect then 99% valid!

The W3C validator will, AFAIK, reject everything (apart from comments)
*unless* you have a !DOCTYPE tag at the start to tell it what kind of
document it's supposed to be validating.

This !DOCTYPE is the one I usually use, HTML 4.0:
--
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
--
The !DOCTYPE tag should go *before* the HTML tag.

Regards
-- 
Matthew `<BODY></BODY>' Thomas, columnist, http://www.newsroom.co.nz/
`MS can stick around and make products I don't want to buy all day. I
just want to make them stop squishing their competitors before they
get out of the gate.' -- `Moofie' on http://slashdot.org/

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