Validating Links, Incorrect Case error seems false
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:57 pm
I've only just begun playing with the Validate Links feature -- very neat. However, I have a problem.
Within my own Web site, all links are relative. I develop on my C: drive (with numerous backup copies of the data on my C: drive), and FTP up to my ISP. Because all the links within my own Web site are relative, no adjustment whatsoever is needed when they are FTP'd to my ISP. Similarly, I do not use <base href= .... because it seems unnecessary, and because it seems that if I used it then I would have to adjust it before FTP'ing up to my ISP.
My Web site on my C: drive is stored in a directory (and numerous subdirectories) under My Documents under my userid (this is Win/XP). All my directory names for my Web site and all my html file names for my Web site are lower case. Or at least they look lower case in Windows Explorer. I'm never quite sure what Windows does with the names when it hacks them into 8.3 format behind the scenes. All my href links are lower case. However, CSE HTML Validator declares what appears to be 100% of my internal links to be Incorrect Case errors. All external links seem to validate just fine.
It only takes two files to illustrate the error, say a main page called index.html and a second file called xyz.html, with a link from index.html to xyz.html. <a href="xyz.html">Click here for xyz</a> will produce the error message, which I believe to be false.
Are there any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong to get these Incorrect Case error messages?
Within my own Web site, all links are relative. I develop on my C: drive (with numerous backup copies of the data on my C: drive), and FTP up to my ISP. Because all the links within my own Web site are relative, no adjustment whatsoever is needed when they are FTP'd to my ISP. Similarly, I do not use <base href= .... because it seems unnecessary, and because it seems that if I used it then I would have to adjust it before FTP'ing up to my ISP.
My Web site on my C: drive is stored in a directory (and numerous subdirectories) under My Documents under my userid (this is Win/XP). All my directory names for my Web site and all my html file names for my Web site are lower case. Or at least they look lower case in Windows Explorer. I'm never quite sure what Windows does with the names when it hacks them into 8.3 format behind the scenes. All my href links are lower case. However, CSE HTML Validator declares what appears to be 100% of my internal links to be Incorrect Case errors. All external links seem to validate just fine.
It only takes two files to illustrate the error, say a main page called index.html and a second file called xyz.html, with a link from index.html to xyz.html. <a href="xyz.html">Click here for xyz</a> will produce the error message, which I believe to be false.
Are there any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong to get these Incorrect Case error messages?