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Old 07-05-2008, 12:53   #38 (permalink)
freelancr
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Originally Posted by steveb
If it really takes two years to make a site W3C compliant, it's time to ignore the bastards and post sites which simply appear on peoples' browsers.

If they have a staff of 30, and been online for 13 years, and its still not valid? They must be scratching their arses playing computer games and smoking pot instead.

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I've nothing against standards compliancy, but the standards should be logical and easily implemented.

It is. XHTML and CSS are about the easiest languages to learn. They are so basic that some do not even consider them a "real" programming language.

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Something like the good old BASIC language where if there was a logical error, a program simply wouldn't run. Interpolating that into web standards, if something is too irregular or convoluted, it wouldn't show up.

You can get a web server to stream the content-type as application/xhtml+xml, but surprise surprise, this fucks up on Internet Explorer. If there is an error, and it is delivered as this content-type, the browser will just show an error.
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