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Question posted by: DU (Guest) on July 20th, 2005 08:27 PM
Hello fellow stylers,

I don't understand the error report given by the W3C CSS validator:

"Line: -1

unrecognized media screen, tv "

I checked carefully and can't figure this one out. I created a reduced
demo page. It seems that I can not mention more than 1 media as media
attribute values.

http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorun...FocusMedia.html

I'd appreciate explanations on this. Otherwise, I'll report this as a
bug to W3C.

DU
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Jukka K. Korpela
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July 20th, 2005
08:27 PM
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Re: CSS Validator error?
DU <drunclear@hot-R-E-M-O-V-E-mail.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I don't understand the error report given by the W3C CSS validator:
>
> "Line: -1
>
> unrecognized media screen, tv "[/color]

You mean you don't know where your line -1 is? :-)

Apparently "CSS Validator" simply does not deal with a comma between
media names, so it takes the stuff as a single name, then tells it
doesn't know it.

This bug was reported already in November 2002:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public...02Nov/0015.html
[color=blue]
> I'd appreciate explanations on this. Otherwise, I'll report this as
> a bug to W3C.[/color]

Don't bother. The "CSS Validator" is apparently abandonware. The
announced forum for bug reports is the Join Bytes!
mailing list, see http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/Email.html
But it seems to be just a forum for reporting bugs, without affecting
anything. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public...03Jun/0011.html
which says: "We don't have an official maintainer for the CSS Validator
anymore unfortunately."

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July 20th, 2005
08:27 PM
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Re: CSS Validator error?
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:[color=blue]
> DU <drunclear@hot-R-E-M-O-V-E-mail.com> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>I don't understand the error report given by the W3C CSS validator:
>>
>>"Line: -1
>>
>>unrecognized media screen, tv "[/color]
>
>
> You mean you don't know where your line -1 is? :-)
>
> Apparently "CSS Validator" simply does not deal with a comma between
> media names, so it takes the stuff as a single name, then tells it
> doesn't know it.
>
> This bug was reported already in November 2002:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public...02Nov/0015.html
>[/color]

Wow... comma bug already reported 10 months ago... and still not
corrected yet. :(
[color=blue]
>[color=green]
>>I'd appreciate explanations on this. Otherwise, I'll report this as
>>a bug to W3C.[/color]
>
>
> Don't bother. The "CSS Validator" is apparently abandonware. The
> announced forum for bug reports is the Join Bytes!
> mailing list, see http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/Email.html
> But it seems to be just a forum for reporting bugs, without affecting
> anything. See
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public...03Jun/0011.html
> which says: "We don't have an official maintainer for the CSS Validator
> anymore unfortunately."
>[/color]

This is sad and very disappointing.

Thank you for your research, for the links and thank you for your time.
This was greatly appreciated.

DU
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- Interactive demos on Popup windows, music (audio/midi) in Netscape 7.x
http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorun...pe7Section.html


 
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