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Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:05:20 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HTML validation

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Tom Brown wrote:
>

I have these two:

http://validator.w3.org/ - W3C HTML Validation Service - enter a url
and this site will check the HTML

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/validate/ - HTML code validation

> Is there any way to determine why a
> particular site rejects Mozilla and Netscape?

Look at the source, sometimes there's an embedded comment which gives
the reason.

I've occasionally emailed a webmaster and they're usually pretty good
about responding with an answer.

Technically, here's what happens: The web server at the site receives
the name of the browser you're using as part of the connection
handshake. This allows the web server to "fine tune" the HTML which it
sends back to you (some browsers support certain tags that others don't
support, plus some browsers have HTML "bugs" so this allows for a
workaround).

The "fine tuning" is done by a little program that the webmaster writes
("CGI Script", "Java Servlet", whatever). Some web sites like to "fine
tune" by not accepting queries from browsers they don't like.

- Peter

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