Re: Standards compliance (HTML)

From: Richard Edgar (rge21_at_astro.su.se)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:09:03 +0200

Jan Vorbrüggen wrote:
>> The validator said that I was supposed to put a file whose name
>> started with a period in my directory to fix the error but my
>> ISP doesn't permit that.
>
> Ugh...make a Unixism such as dot-files part of a standard? No thanks!

Actually, I can't find this suggestion from the Validator links.
<http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-charset>
Simply says that this information is usually provided by the web server.

Richard

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