Re: here ya go, joey

23 Sep 2005

      I would fully understand if you didn't care, but here are some things my UA still chokes on.
Note that I've implemented my UA to the strictest possible interpretation of the W3C rules
because that is all the time I have been able to invest in my UA thus far. Someday, I hope
it deals more gracefully with invalid and non-conventional documents, but the time I have
to work on projects like this is extremely limited, given that I don't browse the internet
unless I'm absolutely forced to.

As always, any incorrect statements below are my own.

1) When using a doctype of type "PUBLIC", you should include a URI to the DTD. The proper Doctype
decl. with URI for your document would be:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

2) Comments MUST begin with "" (although whitespace is allowed between the
"--" and the closing bracket (">")). See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4
This is a problem because you never closed the first comment in your document, which makes the entire
document invisible to me.

3) Your validating document actually exposed a flaw in my UA. It doesn't deal well with unquoted
attribute values. While it's not REQUIRED to quote all attribute values, I believe it is generally
considered good behaviour to do so, and it doesn't seem like it should be terribly difficult to get
any decent conversion program to respect that.

4) Even after adjusting the above, I remain unable to view the document, but I have not been able
to identify why, as of yet. Luckily, whatever the problem is, the tool tidy(1) is able to clear it
up. You can see the result of running tidy(1) on your document by visiting:

http://pg.joeysmith.com/

Now, just to check my understanding, this is a document that went from PG-TEI -> zml -> HTML?

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
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joey-
you can find the validated version of my alice html here:
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http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/alice01/alice01/valice01.html
-bowerbird

joey

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