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Re: simple question

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From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject Re: simple question
Date Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:20:09 +0000
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>> 
>> Are you counting the "..."?  (I would not be surprised!)  Otherwise I
>> see only one.
>
> The dots are the obvious syntax errors, yes.

As I said, I am not surprised.  You probably say "yes" when asked if you
want red or white at a party.

>>> simply would not do what you think it does.
>> 
>> How on Earth do you know that?
>
> In your favor, I have assumed reasonable thinking, but obviously I was 
> wrong.
>
>> Obviously I'm guessing a bit about what the OP wants, but it does what
>> I want!
>
> Oh, really?  And what would that be?

Don't be silly.  You know perfectly well.  The mystery is why you
thought you knew it was not doing what I wanted.

>>> Also, the HTML is still invalid.
>> 
>> Of course.  What possible value could there be in my adding the missing
>> title element to the OP's HTML?
>
> The missing “title” element is not the problem because this code needs to be 
> inserted in an HTML document that is supposed to have a “title” element 
> already; the missing “type” attribute (HTML 4) or invalid (HTML 4.01/XHTML 
> 1.0 Strict)/obsolete (HTML 5) “language” attribute of the “script” element 
> is the problem.

You have an odd notion of invalid HTML.  The language attribute does not
make the document non-conforming unless there is also a type attribute.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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simple question super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2017-11-12 07:04 -0600
  Re: simple question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-12 14:22 +0000
    Re: simple question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-11-12 18:33 +0100
      Re: simple question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-12 20:28 +0000
        Re: simple question super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2017-11-12 15:11 -0600
          Re: simple question Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-11-13 13:26 +1100
        Re: simple question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-11-12 22:39 +0100
          Re: simple question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-13 01:20 +0000
            Re: simple question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-11-13 03:49 +0100
            Re: simple question Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-11-13 16:45 -0800

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