WEBLINT HTML checkers incomprensible

[Aggiro]

Hi everybody...
just in, with an identity, in this webmasterworld...
my problem is this...
I've just working on "cleaning the HTML of some sites" and to make it easier I've used WEBLINT (www.ews.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/weblint)...
actuallt it tells me something that I don't know what means...

1 - first:
--- markup embedded in a comment can confuse some browsers.

2 - second:
HTML: <area shape="rect" coords="-1,455,140,476" href="guests.html" alt="sign our guestbook we would love to hear from you!">
PROBLEM: attribute `ALT' for <area> is extended markup (use "-x <extension>" to allow this).

3 - third:
HTML: <table width="15%" border="1" height="111" bordercolor="#006699" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
PROBLEM: attribute `BORDERCOLOR' for <table> is extended markup (use "-x <extension>" to allow this).

4 - forth:
HTML: <form method="get" action="http://search.atomz.com/search/"></form>
PROBLEM: empty container element <FORM>.

and keep going with...
PROBLEM: attribute `TABINDEX' for <input> is extended markup (use "-x <extension>" to allow this).
PROBLEM: attribute `STYLE' for <a> is extended markup (use "-x <extension>" to allow this).

that's all finally...
thanks to everybody...
just waiting

[Brett_Tabke]

Yes, the old weblint is really starting to show it's age. It validates to HTML 3.2

1: scripts (in comments) could confuse some browsers a few years ago.
2: Alt for area was a ms extension.
3: Bordercolor for a table is not part of HTML.
4: Is not legal code.
5: Is not legal code.
6: Style was not part of 3.2 - that was css 1.