[html5] failure to validate mail link?

[Henri Sivonen]

"Rob Crowther" <robertc at boogdesign.com> wrote:

> On 16/05/10 18:53, designer wrote:
> > Thanks Rob, that fixed it. However, no-one has commented on the
> fact
> > that the spaces are allowed in XHTML1.1? That's what confused me!
> >
> 
> I would guess: the XHTML 1.1 spec allows a space separated list of
> URLs 
> on the href attribute, whereas HTML5 allows only a single URL which
> may 
> be surrounded by spaces.
> 
> Someone more familiar with XHTML 1.1 might know better.

XHTML 1.1 has less advance validation tools available for it, so the URL syntax is not checked.

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Henri Sivonen
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