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From: "Richard and Linda Scheimann" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Validator
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:15:46 -0500
References: <200208201154.g7KBs6x5025777@mayo.hasler.ascom.ch>


That may be, but when I forgot to close tables on a very simple web page,
where the tables were simply set for the sidebar index, people using some
versions of Netscape promptly reported that they couldn't load any part of
the page. It came up blank for them until I added the end tags.

Linda Scheimann

Linda Scheimann
Co-Coordinator, Washington Co. WIGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwashin/
Personal pages at:
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~scheimann/



----- Original Message -----
From: Hector Davie <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Validator


> Just one trivial point.
>
> The end tag for <.tr> and <.td> (as well as <.th> and <.tbody>) is
optional in
> HTML 4.0 (as is that for <.p>)
>
> Any HTML validator should validate text where these end tags are missing.
>
> UTF-8 uses either eight or sixteen bits per character; UTF-16 uses sixteen
> bits, btw.
>
> Hector
>

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