Site Ratings & Reviews - Re: listing links to 'exact twin' external stylesheet "dupes" on two free host

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Re: listing links to 'exact twin' external stylesheet "dupes" on two free host

Bertha

2005-08-19, 7:34 pm

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:32:48 -0400, dave <tool_box@weirdstuffcox.net>
muttered something like:

> as an aside: the same site, i believe, said ebay's pages are totally
> -in-capable
> of being html code validated, on the W3C site, or elsewhere...

That's correct--at the moment, anyway, ebay's web pages do not specify a
doctype. The validator needs this in order to know which version of
HTML/XHTML to validate against. (Browsers also need this to know exactly
how the page should be displayed, but they're able to just guess if it's
missing.)

-Bertha
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