On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 05:41:20PM +0100, Francis Daly wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:43:59PM +0000, corvid wrote:
Christopher wrote:
Hi there,
Doing web searches using www.altavista.com does not work. It is as if the search terms are not submitted. The following HTML errors are detected:
HTML warning: line 2, the required DOCTYPE declaration is missing (or invalid) HTML warning: line 68, - forcing close of open tag: <form> HTML warning: line 68, FORM lacks a Submit button HTML warning: line 94, unexpected closing tag: </form>. -- expected </table>
Searching for "Images", "MP3/Audio", or "Video" instead of "Web" or "News" works well.
Is this a problem with altavista rather than with dillo?
It looks like altavista just threw together their form and table tags rather than nesting them.
It's a problem with altavista, in that their HTML is invalid, and therefore they rely on browser-fixups to get the result they probably wanted.
Yes. Both validators WDG and W3C (bug meter's right-click menu), explain this bug. In simple terms, the form declaration should be outside the table. Otherwise, following HTML rules, the form is closed. -- Cheers Jorge.-