lucy24 - 5:28 am on Jul 31, 2011 (gmt 0)

Don't you wish you could just say the validator is delirious?

It's true that they are obsessive about xhtml instead of html for mobile devices. But I thought that had more to do with e-book readers, not mobiles in general.

Why not change the headers to xhtml and then see what the validator continues to fuss about? Since you're using a "dummy" document, all you have to change in the body is put the text inside <p>tags</p>.

I just tried the same validator on a document of my own that I put online for the specific purpose of being able to access it with my iPad. It works beautifully, even though it is in HTML 4, has background images (colored marginal stripes like on the endpapers of books), uses javascript popups (that's why I couldn't simply make a PDF), has an embedded font* accessed via an at-rule, is much larger than 10K even when you overlook (as the validator did!) the 100K data file and the 200K font... and IT DOES TOO have a charset declaration no matter how many separate times they claim it doesn't ;)

Yeah. Let's say the validator is delirious.


* Because you can't lawfully install fonts in the iPad and it doesn't come with anything that covers the UCAS range.