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Greetings. In XHTML, is it legal to have newlines in attribute values which take a URI, such as the href attribute of an anchor? If so, say I have an anchor as follows: <a href="foo?bar=bar &baz=baz"> Would a conforming user agent interpret the URI as "foo?bar=bar&baz=baz" or as "foo?bar=bar%0Abaz=baz" or possibly something else?... more »

By Tristan Miller - 8 Feb - 11 new of 11 messages

CSS to raise contast on web pages?

I am annoyed by the low-contrast text on "pretty" web pages. At the moment, I'm looking at: [link] but I experience this frequently on sites that ought to know better. I can toggle to my own style sheet (easy in Opera) or print the page for serious reading. Is there any way my style sheet can force black-on-white text while retaining the layout?... more »

By Mason C - 8 Feb - 7 new of 7 messages

How to protect simply a web page access by password with javascript (non-military grade)?

I would like to protect a certain web page by a password (one password for all visitors). The protection need not to be on military level. Think of a private photo gallery. It should be however simple to setup without access and configuration of web server. As far as I remember I have seen such a protection some years ago with javascript.... more »

By Camille Petersen - 6 Feb - 10 new of 10 messages

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	What should I expect to happen when I replace <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[link]"> <html xmlns="[link]"> with <!DOCTYPE html> <html> ? Is HTML 5 downward-compatible enough for most typical XHTML 1.0 code to work properly? Where are the traps and... more » By Hans-Georg Michna - 6 Feb - 14 new of 14 messages

b or strong?

(Crossposted and followups to ciwah.) dorayme: ...B, if you just want bold, but do you really want bold? Marking up content as bold would seem to go against the idea of descriptive markup. If what you want is emphasis, EM or STRONG would do. You can style these however you like. ...Right, that's what the specification says. But I tend to agree with Jukka... more »

By John Dunlop - 6 Feb - 29 new of 29 messages

	How do I disable hyphenation in my table cells?
	I'm trying to create a table in a Twiki document, and I can't seem to figure out how to keep my web browser from hyphenating text inside the table cells. Twiki has its own language for defining elements, but I can embed HTML where necessary. I tried using the <nowrap> tag, but that's getting ignored.... more » By Timur Tabi - 5 Feb - 7 new of 7 messages

	Insert YouTube file in page
	Hello, How can I insert a YouTube movie in a page that validates in XHTML Strict? Thank You, Miguel By shapper - 4 Feb - 5 new of 5 messages

	Can I refer width value not to the parent container cascade but to the current top browser window?
	Assume I have the following HTML code (for simplicity with embedded CSS instructions): <html>.... <body width="1000px"> <div width="800px"> <div width="80%"> <table margin-left="20px" width="90%"> .... </table> </div> ... </div> ....... more » By Camille Petersen - 4 Feb - 10 new of 10 messages

	302 Found with 10MB payload
	Is it right for a 302 Found response to have a 10MB payload attached? $ HEAD -dSP [link] HEAD [link] --> 302 Found HEAD [link] --> 200 OK... more » By jida...@jidanni.org - 3 Feb - 2 new of 2 messages

	Comment within a comment
	I have a page with a number of comments in it, such as: <div><!-- start div --> <p.Blah, blah, blah</p> </div><! -- close div --> This repeats itself a number of times for each <div>. On a temporary basis I would like to comment out chunks of the page. If I place <! -- where I want the the block of commented... more » By Bill Braun - 2 Feb - 15 new of 15 messages