On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:53:15 -0500, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Darn, this was supposed to go to the list, I was not watching. > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done? > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:36:36 -0500 > From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Saturday 27 October 2001 01:58 am, you wrote: > > RE: > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098823,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1t > >p02 > > > > "Visse said earlier Thursday that the message would be shown to > > people using "browsers that we know don't support (W3C) standards or > > that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer." > > W3C refers to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing > > industry standards for Web technologies." > > > > "Microsoft admitted that its technology was watching for Opera > > strings--but only because the company wanted to encourage people to > > use standard-compliant browsers." > > > > ---- > > > > Read: THEIR standards. > > > > This is complete crap. Almost all of the browsers they blocked > > out support enough HTML 4.0 to make the site perfectly viewable. I > > find it hard to believe that MS even cares about W3C standards as > > there are a lot of proprietary HTML tags supported only by MSIE. > > > > I'm not even sure there is a browser around anymore that supports > > pure W3C standards. > > > > Talk about smokescreen. > > > > - John > > You are right. What hogwash, now that they have opened it up to browsers that > may not render it correctly and optimize our "experience" , Konqueror will > pull it up and show it perfectly, well as perfect as microcrap can be shown.
Has anybody tried running www.msn.com through the W3C HTML validator (http://validator.w3.org/check/?uri=http%3A//www.msn.com)? Here is the first line of its findings: "Fatal Error: no document type declaration; will parse without validation" I tried to manually set a Doctype using the pull-down menu on the Validator site, but none of them were able to make the page validate as standards-compliant. How typical of Micro$haft. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi, and obol.
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