Hi there, These days have brought several good surprises with regard to HTML and good webmasters. For instace, from the sites that appear in our splash screen: The Register: switched to XML! (no BUGS) Slashdot : they're fixing the HTML (some old detected bugs don't show anymore) Monster news: In the process of fixing. Dillo's site: Fixed! (Yes, the new parser catched hidden bugs) also, sourceforge.net and newsforge.com look better with the new parser (not a merit of the sites, but a good new anyway). To finish this report, and with a view to exemplify what you should expect from a good webmaster, I'd like to forward a couple of emails I had with the webmaster of www.fluxagent.org: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:50:12 +0200 From: Markus Kroetzsch <Markus.Kroetzsch@inf.tu-dresden.de> To: Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@dillo.org> Subject: Re: www.fluxagent.org and Dillo Dear Jorge, thank you for your answer. Setting the area > tag fixes the problem, even on my old Dillo 0.7.2. The webpages will be updated shortly to reflect this insight. When viewing the uncorrected page sources with Mozilla, the missing ">" actually shows up automagically, which might be the reason why nobody noticed so far (the pages are auto-generated by a script, so there is just one place where ">" is missing...). Best regards Markus

Hi,

Sometime ago someone filled the following bug record with regard to www.fluxagent.org:

BUG#478 Impact : soft error At : run time Type : misbehaviour Comments: Images used for navigation within a table (each equiped with some polygon-area mouse-<map>) do not always (but sometimes) actually work as links. Maybe related to bug 317? - PS: Great project! - HTReproduce: Go to www.fluxagent.org (valid html4.01). Check the navbar: only the first link works, no matter which sub-page is viewed. WorkedBy : nobody

I tried to get the webmaster's email address from:

http://www.fluxagent.org/emails.htm

but it didn't show for Matthias Fichtner, so I write to you.

The problem is that for some reason I don't yet know of, SGML allows for omitting the '>' closing tag character for the <area> element.

If you check the page with W3C, it validates, but if you do with the WDG validator, then it shows:

http://www.htmlhelp.org/cgi-bin/validate.cgi? url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fluxagent.org&warnings=yes

The easiest solution is to add the missing '>' for each <area> tag.

Hope this helps Jorge.- http://www.dillo.org ------- End of Forwarded message --------

Cheers Jorge.-