GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 486822
www.gnome.org is not valid HTML 4.01
Last modified: 2007-11-28 15:39:17 UTC
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnome.org%2F Line 2, Column 12: there is no attribute "XMLNS". <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Line 10, Column 63: character data is not allowed here. …l="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/frontpage.css" />
Confirmed bug is still present. The title should probably end "...HTML 4.01 Strict" Timely resolution seems appropriate considering the footer reads: "Optimised for standards. Hosted by Red Hat."
If we keep the xmlns thing in <html> then the doctype should be changed and some / added to some tags. I have no idea what's the expected type of that document, if anyone can clarify that it's easily fixable.
[collision with comment #2] No; the title shouldn't end HTML 4.01 Strict. There is no trivial fix. "xmlns" is an XML thing, and so can't appear in *any* version of HTML 4 as such, because no version of HTML 4 is XML. Rather, we must decide either that the whole thing is HTML 4.01 or that the whole thing is some form of XHTML. The breakage appears to have been introduced in r5322, which was checked in by rzhou; I'm ccing him to ask what he thinks we should do. http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml/trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml?view=diff&r1=5321&r2=5322
Sorry this took so long - this should be fixed in r5678.