HTML etiquette

Fri Oct 10 16:27:47 EDT 1997

Depends.  Is this situation more akin to telling someone they have an ugly
mole they really should get checked, or to telling them they're trailing a
piece of toilet paper on their shoe?  If it's the first, I would say, they know
about the mole and it's rude to comment.  If the second, they would appreciate
being told.  Maybe this person deliberately took the easy way out and would be
offended that someone else wants to beckon them to a higher standard!  :^)

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From:	SMTP%"dwinells at vmsb.csd.mu.edu" 10-OCT-1997 16:22:58.15
To:	LORI
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Subj:	HTML tagging error ettiquette

Ok, here's an odd question. I was looking at the source code of someone's
page and noticed a lot of weird stuff (for example, blah blah, empty containers
<center></center> and 20 &nbsp; at the end of the file), although it
comes up alright in the browser. It has all the signs of having been done
in some WYSIWYG editor and wasn't run through a validator. Would it be
really obnoxious to inform someone that their tagging wasn't correct, or
just forget about it? By the way, I don't know this person. If I did I'd
have no problem emailing them.

Sheryl Dwinell * Cataloger/DBM Librarian/Webmaster
Memorial Library * Marquette University
P.O. Box 3141 * Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
414-288-3406 * dwinells at vms.csd.mu.edu