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Bug 13813 - Parser errors on a meta tag attribute names (msapplication-tooltip and msapplication-starturl).
Summary: Parser errors on a meta tag attribute names (msapplication-tooltip and msappl...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://ww.sivill.com/index.html
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Reported: 2011-08-18 00:29 UTC by Graham Sivill
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Sivill 2011-08-18 00:29:00 UTC 
I get this error from the HTML5 parser:

"Bad value msapplication-tooltip for attribute name on element meta: Keyword msapplication-tooltip is not registered."

And:

"Bad value msapplication-starturl for attribute name on element meta: Keyword msapplication-starturl is not registered."

The error says you "can register metadata names on the WHATWG wiki yourself" so I followed the link to see if it was registered and they both are, unless I misunderstanding what the error is telling me.

The following is copied from the Registered Extensions table off the Wiki:

msapplication-tooltip 

"Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7 
The "msapplication-tooltip" metadata provides additional tooltip text that appears when you hover over the Pinned Site shortcut in the Windows Start menu or on the desktop.
 
<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Channel 9 Podcasts" />
 
Declaring Pinned Site Metadata 

and

msapplication-starturl 

"Jump List" or "Pinned Sites" in Windows 7 
The "msapplication-starturl" metadata contains the root URL of the application. The start URL can be fully qualified, or relative to the current document. Only HTTP and HTTPS protocols are allowed. If this element is missing, the address of the current page is used instead.
 <meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="./" />
 
Declaring Pinned Site Metadata 

On my site at http://www.sivill.com/index.html the parser gives these errors:

Validation Output: 2 Errors 

Line 10, Column 69: Bad value msapplication-tooltip for attribute name on element meta: Keyword msapplication-tooltip is not registered.

<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="GSComputing Web Site"  />

Syntax of metadata name:A metadata name listed in the HTML specification or listed in the WHATWG wiki. You can register metadata names on the WHATWG wiki yourself.

 Line 11, Column 51: Bad value msapplication-starturl for attribute name on element meta: Keyword msapplication-starturl is not registered.

<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="./" />

Syntax of metadata name:A metadata name listed in the HTML specification or listed in the WHATWG wiki. You can register metadata names on the WHATWG wiki yourself.
 
I think this is an error in the parser and these lines in my HTML code should not be being errored.

Graham Sivill
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2011-08-18 17:11:55 UTC 
Looks like this is an issue with the validator.nu instance used by the validator; it is not reproducible at http://validator.nu .
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-21 14:42:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like this is an issue with the validator.nu instance used by the
> validator; it is not reproducible at http://validator.nu .

Yeah, it was just due to the backend not being in sync with the latest upstream validator.nu sources. But I've updated it now, so the page should validate as expected.
Comment 3 Graham Sivill 2011-08-21 15:00:42 UTC 
Many thanks for sorting this, my site now validates as expected.

Graham Sivill

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Looks like this is an issue with the validator.nu instance used by the
> > validator; it is not reproducible at http://validator.nu .
> 
> Yeah, it was just due to the backend not being in sync with the latest upstream
> validator.nu sources. But I've updated it now, so the page should validate as
> expected.