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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: anyone has link for 3.14 release notes or feature list?
Date: 1 Oct 2001 10:44:13 -0500
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In article <pV%t7.11184$ev2.17092@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <5ee5b646.0109300515.760595cc@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar
> says...
>>
>>That's really horrible! I have notified our Web people
>>to check it out. As someone who always deletes IE from
>>any machine I get my hands on, and replaces it with 
>>Netscape, that won't do! I can by the way see the page
>>just fine with my old V4 Netscape on OS/2. 
> 
> (My first reply got lost in the ether. My apologies if both show up.)
> 
> I'm in pretty much the same boat, except that I keep InternetExploder around as
> an emergency backup. If this is an issue that you care deeply about, I highly
> suggest you mandate use of the HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/ , and
> require that no pages get posted unless all errors and warnings are fixed. I
> have come to consider that page my HTML "compiler".

While I also encourage the use of http://validator.w3.org/ every time
I have an opportunity to make such a comment, I believe this _particular_
error is not caught by that tool.  I know it does not catch pages that
specify one of (text or background) but not the other, which in the
case of white and black will lead to errors on half the browsers in
use (depending on how their defaults are set).

So while http://validator.w3.org/ is good, it too has some defects.