Just for fun, I tried the http://validator.w3.org/ on the main index.html for Tomcat 3.x and 4.x. They both failed.
Here is a patch for the src/webapps/index.html page for Tomcat3.3 to make it conform to the HTML 4.01 Transitional Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-tomcat/src/webpages/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.25 diff -r1.25 index.html 1c1 < <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> --- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> 10c10 < <img SRC="tomcat.gif" height=92 width=130 align=LEFT><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=+3>Tomcat</font></font></b> --- > <img SRC="tomcat.gif" height="92" width="130" align="left" alt="The Mighty Tomcat - >MEOW!"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font >size="+3">Tomcat</font></font></b> 12c12 < <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Version --- > <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="-1">Version 43c43 < <br> </ul> --- > </ul> 59c59 < <b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription request: jsp-interest&body=subscribe jsp-interest [Your Full Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> --- > <b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription request: >jsp-interest&body=subscribe jsp-interest [Your Full >Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> 62c62 < <b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription request: servlet-interest&body=subscribe servlet-interest [Your Full Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> --- > <b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription request: >servlet-interest&body=subscribe servlet-interest [Your Full >Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> 66,67c66,67 < <p align="right"><font size=-1><img src="tomcat-power.gif" width="77" height="80"></font><br> < <font size=-1>Copyright © 1999-2001 Apache Software Foundation</font> --- > <p align="right"><font size="-1"><img src="tomcat-power.gif" width="77" height="80" >alt="Powered by Tomcat"></font><br> > <font size="-1">Copyright © 1999-2001 Apache Software >Foundation</font> 69c69 < <font size=-1>All Rights Reserved</font> <br> --- > <font size="-1">All Rights Reserved</font> <br> Here is a patch for the src/webapps/index.jsp page for Tomcat4.0 to make it conform to the HTML 4.01 Transitional Index: index.jsp =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/webapps/ROOT/index.jsp,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -r1.1 index.jsp 1c1 < <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd";> --- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> 43c43 < <td align="left" width="130"><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html";><img src="tomcat.gif" height="92" width="130" border="0" alt="The Mighty Tomcat - MEOW!"></td> --- > <td align="left" width="130"><a >href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html";><img src="tomcat.gif" height="92" >width="130" border="0" alt="The Mighty Tomcat - MEOW!"></a></td> 110c110 < <p><center><b>If you're seeing this page via a web browser, it means you've setup Tomcat successfully. Congratulations!</b></center></p> --- > <p align="center"><b>If you're seeing this page via a web browser, it >means you've setup Tomcat successfully. Congratulations!</b></p> 112c112 < <p>As you may have guessed by now, this is the default Tomcat home page. It can be found on the local filesystem at: --- > <p>As you may have guessed by now, this is the default Tomcat home page. >It can be found on the local filesystem at:</p> 116d115 < </p> 125,126c124,125 < <li><b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription request: jsp-interest&body=subscribe jsp-interest [Your Full Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> < <li><b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription request: servlet-interest&body=subscribe servlet-interest [Your Full Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> --- > <li><b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription >request: jsp-interest&body=subscribe jsp-interest [Your Full >Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> > <li><b><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscription >request: servlet-interest&body=subscribe servlet-interest [Your Full >Name]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></b></li> 138c137 < <p align="right"><font size=-1><img src="tomcat-power.gif" width="77" height="80"></font><br> --- > <p align="right"><font size="-1"><img src="tomcat-power.gif" width="77" >height="80" alt="Powered by Tomcat"></font><br> 140,141c139,140 < <font size=-1>Copyright © 1999-2001 Apache Software Foundation</font><br> < <font size=-1>All Rights Reserved</font> <br> --- > <font size="-1">Copyright © 1999-2001 Apache Software >Foundation</font><br> > <font size="-1">All Rights Reserved</font> <br> Please note that even after applying this patch for the ROOT/index.jsp page, it is not valid, as it uses the bordercolor attribute on the table element, which seems to be IE feature. It's not part of HTML4.01. I can also produce patches to make the pages valid XHTML1.0, but then some browsers probably get troubles.. Any comments appreciated Alf Hogemark
