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for strict HTML 4.01 that is otherwise valid except for a missing type attribute in the <link> tag(s) the "missing attribute" error doesn't show in the validator, it passes as valid
The type attribute is not required for <link>. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-LINK