Re: weblint

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> i've been using this program to check my web pages for accuracy. it's a
nice
> little program except it keeps coming up with errors such as
> "attribute 'COLS' for <TABLE> is extended markup (use"-x<extension> to
allow)"
> as far as i am aware, tables are standard HTML.... arn't they?
> i get the same error when specifying <font face="#######"> and
onMouseOver="##
> is it refering to .xml or something?

There's no such thing as 'HTML'. The are standardised versions of HTML - if
you're writing new pages, you should be using XHTML/1.0, which is equivilent
to HTML/4.0 but is also valid XML.

As for the tags, it doesn't matter in this instance - use whatever tags you
like. <font face..> isn't recognised by all browsers; neither is ECMAScript.
But that doesn't mean your HTML is wrong. Stuff like weblint is only useful
(for me) for filling in width= and height=, and stuff like that. Don't
expect it to be able to do much more than that..

Cheers,

Alex.

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