213509 - http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html is not valid HTML

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Schröder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

1. It has no character encoding: http://tinyurl.com/hrp4
2. It is not valid 4.01 strict: http://tinyurl.com/hrp0
3. It is nearly valid 4.01 transitional: http://tinyurl.com/hrp7

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Martin Schröder]

Primary authors are [e-mail] and [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

I don't have time for this.  Martin, can you provide a patch?

/be

Comment 3

[Martin Schröder]

Attachment: Makes roadmap.html valid HTML

It also adds a button for "valid HTML" which can be used to check the validity.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

fixed

Comment 5

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Thanks, Martin and Daniel!

/be

Comment 6

[Martin Schröder]

The current version (1.108) is nearly HTML 4.01/strict (!), but it's still
missing the encoding declaration. 

This line must be added to the headers:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

And here http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/validation.html#validate_html
you can get a nice bookmarklet for validating html pages. :-)

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

-> fixed again

that is bug 154570 "www.mozilla.org doesn't send charset information"
<meta> character-set declaration is not required. The page does
validates if you set the charset manually in the validator. Per
style guide <http://www.mozilla.org/README-style.html>, I won't
put the <meta> tag in.

verification link:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mozilla.org%2Froadmap.html&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&charset=iso-8859-1+%28Western+Europe%29

btw, at the bottom of each page is an Edit this Page link. Use it to create a
patch (instead of saving the page source which includes unneccessary info from
the wrapper)