[Coco] OT: HTML validator

[Diego Barizo]

I just tested that validator. If I follow their recommendations in a 
frame page, I end up with visible borders that I don't want.
If I do as I always did, and my HTML editor suggests, it works OK, 
tested in IE6, and 2 Geko browsers....

Diego


William Astle wrote:
> Christopher Hawks wrote:
>   
>> 	Yeah, some of the vertical spacing looks a bit weird, but since the WC3 says 
>> the are 373 HTML errors, it looks pretty good.
>>
>>     
>
> Indeed. No matter what the DOCTYPE tag might say, if too many of the 
> wrong type of errors are encountered by the browser when rendering a 
> page, it will fall back to "quirks" mode rather than standards compliant 
> mode. Once that happens, all bets are off on the look of a site.
>
> Firefox tells me that www.coco3.com is rendering in "quirks mode" which 
> means that there is too much invalid markup in the page. It would not 
> surprise me in the least to find that the page starts looking correct if 
> the errors from http://validator.w3.org/ are corrected. In particular, a 
> lot of the goofball attributes (like "leftmargin", etc.) are moved into 
> a stylesheet.
>
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