I agree 100% with this. We can go on and on ad nauseum (and likely will) debating over who sucks more...Macromedia or Opera.
I'd have to say at this point, they're both in the 'wrong' (for lack of a better term). As Jochem said, if MM would validate to a w3 standard, such as XHTML, that would end the discussion right there, IMO. I've been trying to write consistently valid XHTML of late, and still encounter browser issues. At least, being XHTML compliant, I can -legitimately- state that the browsers need to make some changes. There's really no good reason (that I can think of) for any current browsers to not render valid XHTML appropriately. That being said...it really is disappointing that macromedia.com won't validate. charlie Jochem van Dieten writes: > Bruce Sorge wrote: >> You know that MM is not the only site that does not work well with Opera. >> Wells Fargo Bank's On-Line banking does not work well either. > > Wells Fargo is not a member of the W3C. Macromedia is. > > It would be nice if the Macromedia website validated to some version of > the (X)HTML standard. Then we would not only know who to blame if a > certain browser failed to work properly, but it would also be a nice > conclusion of the efforts of Macromedia together with the Web Standards > Project to make its own tools produce valid (X)HTML and a showcase of > the abilities of those tools. > > Now, we can only guess whether Macromedia or Opera is to blame and wait > until somebody produces an XHTML compliant copy of the Macromedia > website to prove it is possible, just like in the past Microsoft [1] and > others have been proven to just not care about about the standards they > produce themselves [2]. > > Jochem > > [1] http://www3.sympatico.ca/dylanfoley/pages/test/msn_tidy.html > [2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
