Standards compliance (HTML)

From: Michael Prager (Mike.Prager.indigo_at_noaa.gov)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:36:34 -0400

This post is about standards compliance in general, and HTML in
particular. If you're not interested, please go no further.
However, I thought that since our Fortran users are well aware
of the Fortran standard, there might be some interest in this.

I am doing some Web programming on my off hours (a volunteer
job). As I finish a page, I validate the code against the HTML
standard; this can be done at

http://validator.w3.org/

It took me a few tries to get everything OK.

Then I tried my bookmarks, including several Fortran vendors,
government sites, shareware sites, and so on. After trying 50
or so, not a single one validated as correct (standard) HTML.

Finally, I searched Google for "computer science department." I
didn't have all day, so I tried only a few: U Washington,
Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, University of Illinois, Perdue,
University of California at Berkeley, University of North
Carolina, and University College London. Not ONE of their home
pages passed the test.

This has given me a new perspective on standards compliance. 

-- 
Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC
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