[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Development (Was: Clean up

Wed Feb 27 19:44:47 CET 2002

Am Mit, 2002-02-27 um 15.53 schrieb Gabucino:

> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> What for? It won't change page's appearance, and browsers care not.

Of course they do. And newer browsers will even more. Most of them
have a "Quirks" Mode for broken webpages which will try to save
whatever they can, but the result is undefined.

> > <p> <b> Test </p> </b> 
> Still better than if it wasn't closed at all :))

Erm... 

> > would be invalid for instance.
> It's perfectly valid, logical. Unfortunately netscape is so shit, it often
> chokes on them.

No, it's illegal and that's why browsers choke on it. Standards make it
pretty easy to determine what is shit and what no by actually defining
what is correct and thus make it (more or less) easy to figure out what
is not.

> > "<td>" Denotes a table cell and has to appear within a "<tr>" tag
> > like done below.
> And a <th> also, huh?

Yes, <th> is also a possibility though wasn't used in the example. :)

> > <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=left>
> > <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%" ALIGN="left">
> I've seen both used..

Well, but the latter is correct, the former not. :)

> > check validator.w3c.org for some fun. :)
> Some people already recommended it for me. I told them to view HTML files
> with joe.

Jezuz...

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Servus,
       Daniel