298 2003-08-27 00:38:08 +0000 Context sensitive tips for DOCTYPE/Charset... 2007-03-29 18:49:40 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check 0.6.1 All All NEW http://www.w3.org/mid/3F375DDD.3090108@ikf.nlh.no P2 enhancement --- 1 link link www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 695 0 link 2003-08-27 00:38:08 +0000 From Håvard Tveite <havard.tveite@ikf.nlh.no>: When a user has chosen "Encoding" and "Doctype" on the validator page, it would be very useful if the validator could make a suggestion regarding the use of tags. For instance when choosing "iso-8859-1 (Western Europe)" for Encoding and "HTML 2.0" for Doctype, the Validator currently gives the following information: >DOCTYPE Override in effect! Any DOCTYPE Declaration in the document >has been suppressed and the DOCTYPE for «HTML 2.0» inserted instead. >The document will not be Valid until you alter the source file to >reflect this new DOCTYPE. If, in addition, something like the following could be suggested to the user, I think it would help beginners a lot: You can specify that this page uses the DOCTYPE "HTML 2.0" by inserting: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> as the first line of the document. You can specify that the character encoding is "iso-8859-1" by inserting: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> within the <head> tag of the document. I hope it is possible to make this information available in standard mode (if that is not possible, perhaps it culd be available in verbose mode). 696 1 link 2003-08-27 00:39:34 +0000 With the infrastructure for better handling of DCOTYPEs in 0.7.0, we should be able to add this with a fairly simple lookup table (which we'll allready have. 2046 2 rtbeauregard 2004-06-24 10:28:32 +0000 Not sure if this is the best place to post this... Recently I discovered that using a doctype without a url, for example, <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-// W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> instead of, <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> produces different results in different browsers. It would be nice if the validator suggested, at the top of the validation results, to add the url to the doctype. Thanks for your attention - apologies if this is an irrelevant post. --RT 2194 3 link 2004-09-01 12:56:18 +0000 Accepting buig and targetting 0.7.0 release. May have to bump for a later version because it involves some tedious work and timing issues may get in the way. 2308 4 link 2004-09-09 18:30:17 +0000 Don't see this happening for 0.7.0; retargetting and removing blocker.