Re: [orca-list] Text after <a /> is presented as a link

[Marcus Habermehl <bmh1980de yahoo de>]

Am 03.09.2010 14:16, schrieb Mallory van Achterberg:
> Hi Marcus,
> Re the meta tag: with that alone, you cannot set the MIME type for 
> the page. User agents can and will ignore meta tags and let the
> server override with HTTP Headers (this is also true with the charset).  
> If you really want the page to be XHTML, you'll have to set it that way 
> on the server or with HTTP Headers.  

I was thinking that's the job of this meta tag. On the server site I
can't make changes.

> However, be aware this means Internet Explorer will not display the page, but
> will ask the user to either download it or open in another application
> (because while it understands XML, it does not recognise XHTML correctly).

Exact. That was the reason I have added the meta tag twice before and
changed it back.

> For this reason, I've stopped writing any new pages in XHTML, and just
> stick to HTML4.01 Strict.  If you want stricter validation from the
> w3c validator (validator.w3.org), you can tell it to pretend the page is 
> XHTML1.0 Strict and get useful error messages there.  This is what I use
> to catch errors like my bad closing anchor tags as I couldn't for the
> life of me figure out what the heck Firefox was doing <smile>.

The first version of the site was using features that are included in
XHTML Transitional only. And then I was too lazy to change everything to
HTML. :-)

But the empty anchor tag wasn't reported as error from the validator.
Only the marquee tag was reported, because it's sort of IE feature.

> Also, if your named anchor is supposed to be a destination for a skip link,
> I've discovered a few browsers won't move the focus there with the anchor
> the way you've got it written.  Internet Explorer 8 seems to want an href
> attribute (I set mine to the same as the skip link's to avoid problems), 
> whle Opera requires there is text content inside the anchor (but that content
> can be a single space character, which works for me).

Currently I have created a simple anchor/link with hidden text
(font-size: 0%). It's not optimal, but it works.

Greetings
Marcus