[ILUG] [Q] Firefox & W3C HTML validator get "Modified" from where?

Fri May 26 09:53:49 IST 2006

 a small question that's been driving me nuts...

 both Firefox's “page info” display and the W3C HTML validator
 insist a new web page I am putting together does not have any
 “modified” attribute/data/whatever.  however, the page (which
 is HTML4 & CSS2) has, in the <HEAD>...</HEAD> both (plus some
 other stuff):

    <META HTTP-EQUIV="last-modified" CONTENT="2006-05-26T10:09:31+0200">
    <META NAME="modified" CONTENT="2006-05-26T10:09:31+0200">

 (I have not checked, but I understand that date syntax is the
 ISO8601 format, which the HTML4 Spec. specifically recommends
 instead of RFC2616.)  the first (HTTP-EQUIV) is based on some
 info I did find on the web, and the second (NAME) is based on
 what WML (specifically, wml::std::info(1)) generates.

 Google™ has not been very illuminating as to what I should be
 doing, or as to what Firefox (1.0.8) or the validator expects.
 furthermore, pseudo-randomly sampling sites using Firefox did
 not find _any_ which has a “modified” whatever-it-is!

 does anyone happen to know, or can point me to useful info,
 or even to a site which Firefox does think has a “modified”
 whatever?  (at this point, the issue is more of curiosity
 than necessity.)

cheers!
	-blf-

p.s.  this is Linux-related in that the new page — which is not
      yet online — is being developed on Linux, using wml(1),
      and also contains some Linux, FLOSS, and Firefox advocacy.

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