- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:53:56 +0100
- To: www-validator list <www-validator@w3.org>
On 27 Apr 2004, at 13:40, Dru Sellers wrote:
<snip>
paraphrase: "The error message for an unsupported content type is not
very helpful".
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
For various reasons, mostly described at
<http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html>, this isn't a very
good solution.
I'd suggest something along the lines of:
The provided document was sent with a content-type of text/plain, the
W3C Markup Validation Service only accepts documents with a
content-type selected from the following list:
* text/html
* application/xhtml+xml (it doesn't yet IIRC, but I think its on the
TODO list)
* etc
You can <a>find out more about content-types</a>
with a link to a document that explains:
* What content types are
* Why content types are used
* That they are set in different ways depending on what sends them to
the validator
- Quick guide to configuring Apache with link to the Apache
documentation
- Ditto IIS
- File Upload with browsers (I don't know how they select content
types, I guess most of them will use the file extension)
- Otherwise a suggestion to consult the documentation for the software
--
David Dorward
<http://dorward.me.uk/>
<http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>
Received on Tuesday, 27 April 2004 08:55:50 UTC