Xah Lee, 2011-03-15, 2011-03-22
The W3C HTML Validator is getting annoying.
If you have a page without a opening “body” tag, but does have a closing one, W3C HTML validation report it as valid.
Maybe it's technically valid, but quite annoying.
Test page: W3 HTML Validation Problem: No Open Body.
Another problem is that, if you use the XHTML style tag such as <br />, it's also reported as valid. W3C only gives a warning. However, this is technically invalid.
Test page: W3 HTML Validation Problem: Slash End Tag.
If you have “p” tag inside “li”, it's valid! Even in html 4 strict.
(Note that technically any ending tag of “p” and “li” can be omitted.)
Test page: W3C HTML Validation Problem: p in li.
With this situation, at this point, you wonder what's validator supposed to be anymore.