Validation - Broken Metatag; HTML 4.01

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Doctype	HTML 4.01 Transitional
Errors	XHTML ending to the meta tag.
Browser Failure	Looks correct in IE6 and Firefox.
Search Engine Failure	Indexed by Google [14 Jan 2006].

A common mistake in html 4 pages is to close a tag in xhtml style. In other words, to end the tag with /> instead of a plain >. This page has a mistake like that in the head section.

W3C does correctly notice the first mistake, but the examples it gives do not include someone using an xhtml ending by accident. A word of warning is that any mistakes below the broken metatag are unlikely to be shown. Without fixing this error, you won't know what else is wrong.

Search Engine Note

One predicted outcome was that the search engine would not be able to understand tags below the broken metatag. This includes the page title. This does not seem to be the case with Google. Google correctly displays the title in the page results.

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