Hi
The W3C css validation service at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
claims that:
{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
is invalid on the grounds that "Too many values or values are not
recognized "
Given that those fonts are very widely used and most are standard
Windows fonts, any idea why I'm getting this weird message from the
validator?
Dave 13  2106 
On 12 May, 16:54, Dave Rado <dave.r...@dsl. pipex.comwrote:
Hi
The W3C css validation service athttp://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
claims that:
{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
is invalid on the grounds that "Too many values or values are not
recognized "
Given that those fonts are very widely used and most are standard
Windows fonts, any idea why I'm getting this weird message from the
validator?
Dave
It's okay I've discovered that the word Serif needed to have a capital
"S". Not a very helpful error message though!!
Dave
On May 12, 5:03*pm, Dave Rado <dave.r...@dsl. pipex.comwrote:
On 12 May, 16:54, Dave Rado <dave.r...@dsl. pipex.comwrote:
Hi
The W3C css validation service athttp://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
claims that:
{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
is invalid on the grounds that "Too many values or values are not
recognized "
Given that those fonts are very widely used and most are standard
Windows fonts, any idea why I'm getting this weird message from the
validator?
Dave
It's okay I've discovered that the word Serif needed to have a capital
"S". Not a very helpful error message though!!
When you changed it to a capital S did you also add the missing comma?
"Times Roman" serif should be "Times Roman", serif
By the spec you don't need a capital letter but you do need a comma.
Steve
In article
<b1************ *************** *******@t54g200 0hsg.googlegrou ps.com>,
Dave Rado <da*******@dsl. pipex.comwrote:
Hi
The W3C css validation service at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
claims that:
{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
is invalid on the grounds that "Too many values or values are not
recognized "
Given that those fonts are very widely used and most are standard
Windows fonts, any idea why I'm getting this weird message from the
validator?
You should have a "," after "Times Roman"
--
dorayme
Dave Rado wrote:
On 12 May, 16:54, Dave Rado wrote:
>>
The W3C css validation service at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
claims that:
{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
is invalid on the grounds that "Too many values or values are not
recognized "
>
It's okay I've discovered that the word Serif needed to have a capital
"S". Not a very helpful error message though!!
The fact that the behavior changed reminds me of that old song...
"Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon..."
-Boy George, Culture Club
--
John
At least I *think* that's what he was singing...
In article <48**********@n ews.bluewin.ch> ,
John Hosking <Jo**@DELETE.Ho sking.name.INVA LIDwrote:
Dave Rado wrote:
On 12 May, 16:54, Dave Rado wrote:
>
The W3C css validation service at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
claims that:
{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
is invalid on the grounds that "Too many values or values are not
recognized "
It's okay I've discovered that the word Serif needed to have a capital
"S". Not a very helpful error message though!!
The fact that the behavior changed reminds me of that old song...
"Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon..."
-Boy George, Culture Club
The Boy George official site is under construction and has three html
errors at least. It looks so promising though.
--
dorayme
Dave Rado wrote:
On 12 May, 22:32, dorayme <doraymeRidT... @optusnet.com.a uwrote:
>You should have a "," after "Times Roman"
--
dorayme
Yes, sorry.
I still think the validator's error message was very unhelpful though.
All the validator knew at the point where it reached "serif"--or even
just the "s"--was that it was expecting to see one of the following but
not seeing any of them (not sure this is an exhaustive list): a comma;
!important; a semicolon; or the end of the list. It can't tell you
"you're missing a comma" because it doesn't know from its point of view
that that's the nature of the problem. Granted, the least it could do is
show you the position of the character where it identified the presence
of a problem.
On Tue, 13 May 2008, dorayme wrote:
>{font-family: "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif}
You should have a "," after "Times Roman"
You should have a "," after "Times".
There's "Times New Roman" and there's "Times".
But "Times Roman" is not the name of a typeface family, afaik.
The Times typeface family consists of
Times Roman, Times Italic, Times Bold, Times Bold Italic.
/*
I'm still convinced that the name "Times New Roman" for
a typeface *family* is a misnomer. It ought to be Times New.
*/
-- http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...Alan.J.Flavell
Harlan Messinger wrote:
Dave Rado wrote:
>On 12 May, 22:32, dorayme <doraymeRidT... @optusnet.com.a uwrote:
>>You should have a "," after "Times Roman"
--
dorayme
Yes, sorry.
I still think the validator's error message was very unhelpful though.
All the validator knew at the point where it reached "serif"--or even
just the "s"--was that it was expecting to see one of the following but
not seeing any of them (not sure this is an exhaustive list): a comma;
!important; a semicolon; or the end of the list. It can't tell you
"you're missing a comma" because it doesn't know from its point of view
that that's the nature of the problem. Granted, the least it could do is
show you the position of the character where it identified the presence
of a problem.
On reflection I realize I was missing the fact that the validator DID
tell you something specific: that there were too many values. It DID
construe "serif" to be a value *because* it followed the preceding items
without an intervening comma, semicolon, etc. The problem is you not
knowing what they meant by "value". CSS has composite properties like
font, border, margin, etc., that can set several individual properties
at once--for example, you can use font to set several font-related
properties:
font: serif 1.2em italic;
This example has three values.
It's weird, but CSS uses commas to separate alternatives *within* a
value while it uses spaces to separate values. So in
"Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman" serif
one value is
"Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", "Times
Roman"
and the other is
serif
Since font-family isn't a composite property, it takes only one value,
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