Trish Meyer wrote: >Hi all, >... >http://darlenehorsley.com/ > >Out of curiousity, I looked at the View Source and saw something that >looked like a very strange version of CSS. At least, I don't see any >tables being built. What is that goop? (beside comic relief!) Is it >XML? >I'd like to explain to her why it doesn't work, though I strongly >advised her to learn a web program... > >Trish > Hi Trish, Indeed, what we see is an awfull lot of special codes, which only can be understood by Internet Explorer. It is not HTML, it is not CSS, it is not XML. It is Microsoft-language! :-( As said before, it is caused by the "Easy Transform to Webpage" buttons in other MSOffice products as Word, Publisher (and often also MS Frontpage is making strange codes). Seems a good idea for people who don't know to much of html and webprogramming: nothing to learn, just a click. And especially those people cannot judge about what is performed by pushing that button. So Microsoft/Internet Explorer want us to believe other programs and browsers aren't so good as theirs. "This page is perfect in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox" is often heard. But it is the opposite! MS doesn't play the international rules for proper HTML. - When you put the darlenehorsley-page in the official html-validator, then the result is this <http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//darlenehorsley.com/>. Do you believe? 659 errors in one page (of 1054 lines of html)! No wonder a good browser cannot show the errors... ;-) Besides that, a page with the special MS-codes in it is plenty greater as file then a standards compliant html-file. That means: a longer time for downloading a page for the visitor, and lost bandwidth of internet...
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