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Re: Microsoft's extremely broken Web "standards"

____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 17 December 2007 23:02 : \____

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
> <spam@xxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:51:57 +0000
> <e5ac35-fl3.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Just shopping for spare parts, and I came across this page:
>>
>> http://www.sennheiserspares.com (commercial)
>>
>> It's a very simple page, with little content, and what would be a simple
>> layout *if* it actually rendered properly.
>>
>> On Firefox-2.0.0.09 (Linux), this is what it /actually/ looks like:
>>
>> http://media.slated.org/albums/userpics/sennheiser-spares.png
>>
>> Why?
> 
> Well, for what it's worth, validator.w3.org reported 86
> errors on that webpage, one of which is "missing doctype".
> Switching to HTML 4.01 Transitional didn't help much;
> it reported 85 in that case.
> 
> Since some of the errors related to attributes such as
> 'xmlns:v' (which is clearly a namespace declaration), a
> switch to XHTML 1.0 Transitional would have theoretically
> helped.  It didn't; 232 errors in that case.
> 
> And yes, it does look like Microsoft WordBarf(tm).
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'll have to remember that one. *chuckle*

> [analysis snipped for brevity]


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