On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:06:55 -0500
John David Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Replying to Fergus Henderson's complaints about
> non-portable HMTL in the web
> document at http://commnet.pdc.mscorpevents.com/sessions.asp,
> R. S. Nikhil
> writes:
>
> > And is Netscape Communicator 4.61 on Linux (bugs and
> all) a definitive
> > test of portable HTML? :-)
>
> No. A definitive test is to submit the page to the
> validator at the World
> Wide Web Consortium's web site
> (http://validator.w3.com/), which (not
> surprisingly) finds 455 HTML errors, beginning with the
> absence of a document
> type declaration.
Perhaps a less definitive, but nevertheless still reasonable, test would be to view
the page using all major browsers (and yes, Bill Gates, IE is also a browser, not just
an integral component of Windows ;-) ), both Microsoft and non-Microsoft, and to see
whether it displays reasonably well in them all.
Of course, the whole point is that Microsoft would not design the page to look the
same in all browsers, because they would want to provide incentive for people to use
Microsoft products.
--Benjamin L. Russell
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