Re: HTML problems in draft

[Sebastian Egner <sebastian.egner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Per,

As far as I understand, the character
encoding is not specified in 
the HTML document, but is supposed to
be provided by the 
webserver; the default being ISO-8859-1.
However, the encoding
information is lost when you use Opera's
"validate source" option,
or the standard interface of validator.w3.org.

If you use the 'extended interface'
of validator.w3.org then it works.
Here is what I did yesterday before
the SRFI was made public:

        http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html
        ->
choose "Encoding: iso-8859-1 (Western Europe)"
        ->
enter "Address: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-67/srfi-67.html"
        ->
press "Validate this page"

You will find that the character encoding
is ok, but that there are a
few complaints about p- and span-tags.
These are "automatically
generated HTML bugs" obtained by
processing our LaTeX by tex2page.
The same holds for the <p></p>
stuff, which is neither harmful nor wrong
but looks funny.

Since the SRFI's discussion is very
likely triggering changes in the
LaTeX source, we have decided not to
fix these bugs in the HTML 
now, and since they are not very serious
(as far as I can tell from
Opera and Safari), we also decided not
to fix tex2page now.

So, unless you have serious problems
viewing the content of the
SRFI, I would like to offer you my apologies
for the non-compliant
HTML, and reassure you that fixing the
HTML problems is scheduled
before the final release (in case that
happens.)

Sebastian.

P.S. http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-64/srfi-64.html
doesn't validate either.
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srfi-67-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 06-04-2005 05:08

To:        srfi-67@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx         cc:        (bcc: Sebastian Egner/EHV/RESEARCH/PHILIPS)         Subject:        HTML problems in draft         Classification:

There are some HTML problems with the draft.

First, http://validator.w3.org/ complains becaure there is
no character encoding specification, and the file contains
an invalid UTF-8 character (where UTF-8 is the default).
The problem is the ø in Søren, which appears to be Latin-1
instead.  See: http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-charset

Using an entity is the most robust solution:
   Jens Axel Søgaard

Spececifying iso-8859-1 lets us continue.
"This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!".

In addition, there are lots of near-empty paragraphs:
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
These may be technically valid, but it's pretty gross.

The page is generated using tex2page; perhaps there are bugs in
tex2page; or it was invoked incorrectly.

Another issue: To satisfy SRFI template requirements, there are
fake commented-out HTML headers, such as for <H1>Authors</H1>.
A cleaner
solution, I think, is to use CSS, like I did in srfi-64:
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-64/srfi-64.html
-- 
                
--Per Bothner
per@xxxxxxxxxxx   http://per.bothner.com/