Re: Standards compliance (HTML)

From: Gary L. Scott (garyscott_at_ev1.net)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:21:31 -0500

Michael Prager wrote:
>
> 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.

What was the predominant noncompliances? My guess is that since 95% of
all net traffic is from Windows computers, that it involves MS
extensions of some sort.

>
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