Re: W3C Validator Errors

wayne wrote:
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
wayne wrote:

The W3C validator reports an error in the html:
Line 17, Column 41: Attribute "language" exists, but can not be used
for this element.

It's a poorly formulated error message. Unfortunately, they are
making the reports looser in their misguided attempt at being more
user-friendly - and they confuse users even more than before.

It is completely irrelevant that attribute "language" exists
(according to the DTD) for some element, when it does not exist
(i.e. is not allowed) for the element being investigated.

But I think you have dealt with this issue:

Thank you for the response. Perhaps the error message is of little
value here.
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
Even though the "view source" clearly shows "language="javascript""
is not in the html.

Which "view source"? When I visit the page http://glenmeadows.us on a
normal browser and do View source, I surely see
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
on line 17.

As I've stated in response to the Richard and Andy, when I do a view
source, the text at line 17 is not the same as what you see and I am
looking in my browser, not the text you are seeing. The text in the
error message does not show up at all in my browser, but when I click
on show source in the W3C settings and look at that source, it is
indeed there. There is cookie information there as well, which I
don't see in my browser.

When I view source with FF and Chrome the script is not there. When I view
source with IE, Opera, Safari the script *is* there. Somebody methinks is
indulging in some server side browser sniffing.



I have changed the doctype dtd to several different types but always
end up with the same results.

Why? Validation is about being exact with your syntax, not about
throwing random documents at a Molok-like demi-god called a
Validator in order to be lucky enough to please it and get a Sign of
Approval (even though some W3C policies may seem to encourage the
latter view).
The site is a cms driven site and the syntax is not easy to change.
There are hundreds of files to review and modify. I have been working
on the site for a couple of years trying to remove the tables, but it
is a daunting task.

Do you really want to use XHTML 1.0 Strict? Why? Well, if you do,
then deal with the consequences. You have a lot to do then, and it's
mostly nothing productive. What's the point of getting rid of
presentational attributes when your source is full of presentational
orientation? Things like that
<td class="white"><span class="smalltext">22</span></td>
are really just presentational markup, with <font> and everything, in
disguise.


If you have made the mistake of using XHTML in the first place, then
you could help yourself by using Transitional doctype - at least as
the first step, fixing real syntax errors if any, before proceeding
to (futile?) cleanup from Transitional to Strict.

Perhaps I should cut my losses and stop trying to get rid of the
errors. The php generated code does need a lot more work to get to
2009 standards.
Other errors are also no in the html, almost like the validator is
looking at a different page.

The site is glenmeadows.us

Well, you gave a computer's Internet name (domain name), not a URL.

Yes, I got lazy there as my browser inserts http:// automatically
when I type a site into the address bar. I forget sometimes that I
should include it when giving the url.

I edit the site directly on the server using Quanta Plus and then view
in Firefox through my isp. This works for me as I am sure my browser
is seeing what others will see.

But are you sure _you_ are looking at http://gleanmeadows.us as a web
page and not at some file in some authoring program - a file from
which the page is constructed, possibly in a fairly complicated way?

The template for the page seems pretty straight forward, but other
files are called from php and insert lines into the html. I would
concede this is done in a complicated way as I cannot find the file that
contains
"language=javascript" in the directories.

Thanks for taking the time to look at the site and for your
advice/comments.


.

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