Tidy HTML - feedback requestes

[Mike]

Greetings,

I just used Tidy HTML for the first time.
The address below contains the files need to check on Tidy's
corrections.
I would appreciate any feedback on the Tidy report and the necessity
and validity of the changes Tidy has made or recommended.

The following is obvious to me:
line 194 column 98 - Warning: discarding unexpected </font>

This I do not understand:
Characters codes for the Microsoft Windows fonts in the range
128 - 159 may not be recognized on other platforms. You are
instead recommended to use named entities, e.g. &trade; rather
than Windows character code 153 (0x2122 in Unicode). Note that
as of February 1998 few browsers support the new entities.
http://mbreiding.us/tidy/
CORRECTED FILE: les10-TIDY.html
TIDY REPORT: les10-html-err.txt
ORIGINAL FILE: les10.html

[C A Upsdell]

"Mike" <mi**@mbreiding.us> wrote in message
news:n2********************************@4ax.com...

Greetings,

I just used Tidy HTML for the first time.
This I do not understand:
Characters codes for the Microsoft Windows fonts in the range
128 - 159 may not be recognized on other platforms. You are
instead recommended to use named entities, e.g. &trade; rather
than Windows character code 153 (0x2122 in Unicode). Note that
as of February 1998 few browsers support the new entities.

Just what it said. numeric character references in the range 128-159 are
invalid. Results will vary from user to user, e.g. may be different for
Windows and Mac users.

The solution is to use valid numeric character references, or to use
character entities (which are not quite as well supported by older browsers
as the numeric character references).

See http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_entities.htm

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Mike wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

This I do not understand:
Characters codes for the Microsoft Windows fonts in the range
128 - 159 may not be recognized on other platforms. You are
instead recommended to use named entities, e.g. &trade; rather
than Windows character code 153 (0x2122 in Unicode). Note that
as of February 1998 few browsers support the new entities.

By default, Tidy assumes a default character encoding of ISO-8859-1 for
which code points 128 - 159 would refer to control characters which are
not legal in HTML. In this default mode, it further assumes that these
are included by accident and what the user really intended was to use
the Windows-1252 character encoding (or MacRoman on MacOS, IIRC) warns
about this issue and changes the code points accordingly, for example
153 would become 2122 (0x84A) which is U+084A in Unicode and equivalent
to &trade;. If you run Tidy with the -win1252 switch, you would get a
different result. Suggestions to improve the text above should be filed
as feature requests in the Tidy feature request tracker, see the Tidy
homepage at http://tidy.sf.net for details.

[DU]

Mike wrote:

Greetings,

I just used Tidy HTML for the first time.
The address below contains the files need to check on Tidy's
corrections.
I would appreciate any feedback on the Tidy report and the necessity
and validity of the changes Tidy has made or recommended.

The following is obvious to me:
line 194 column 98 - Warning: discarding unexpected </font>

This I do not understand:
Characters codes for the Microsoft Windows fonts in the range
128 - 159 may not be recognized on other platforms. You are
instead recommended to use named entities, e.g. &trade; rather
than Windows character code 153 (0x2122 in Unicode). Note that
as of February 1998 few browsers support the new entities.
http://mbreiding.us/tidy/
CORRECTED FILE: les10-TIDY.html
TIDY REPORT: les10-html-err.txt
ORIGINAL FILE: les10.html

In a way, what it says (assumption) is avoid declaring
charset="windows-1252". Instead use charset="iso-8859-1"

DU
--
The site said to use Internet Explorer 5 or better... so I switched to
Mozilla 1.7.3 :)