On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
> Agreed, some of the code isn't all that great - but I find the W3 site
> rather stickly.
Huh. Funny thing about standards. Always so "stickly."
> It complains about not using ALT tags (which I don't remember being a
> requirement, although "RFC" might state otherwise) and the formatting
> of the comment tags.
HTML 4.0 is not defined in an RFC, it is a W3C recommendation...
"The alt attribute must be specified for the IMG and AREA elements. It is
optional for the INPUT and APPLET elements."
"A common error is to include a string of hyphens ("---") within a
comment. Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside
comments."
But of course, all web developers know that the REAL standard is "it works
in kinda recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer."
However, since I am not a web developer, I cling to the past's more
stickly standards. And by contract, I have to post these registration
agreements on MY site. So I tried to edit the Microsoft Word generated
HTML with my proprietary HTML editing tool (vi) in order to clean it up a
little bit, and my head is still spinning.
There is just no freaking way. 46 kilobytes of "HTML" to render 20
kilobytes of black text on a white background. I guess I will just cut
and paste the rendered output to a text file and start from scratch on the
HTML markup.
I have no idea what my point is. File this under "rants."
--
...Craig
