Reasons for RMIT to dump those pages:
Pages do not validate to W3C standards, 42 errors in the one I tried to
validate, Ergo the age text is not all indexed by search engines!
Try some yahoo or msn searches for content inside the second <head> is
it indexed?
A big legal reason Inaccessible under the Aust 1992 Act these pages are
inaccessible.
Other Australian Universities validate their pages.
Monash No W3C Errors
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html#monashuni
Melbourne No W3C Errors
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html#melbuni
Sydney FAILED 9 Errors
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html#sydneyuni
ANU FAILED
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html#uniaust
I could put up a review of one of these RMIT pages for you, shame
sometimes works.
Why do browsers render these pages, maybe some do not, a screen reader,
webbots?
Check the search engine results for text in the second head?
Tim
On 22/11/2006, at 9:53 PM, Meredith Kidby wrote:
Hi Folks
My University's website design is based on a table layout (no comments
needed!). The publishing system only allows the addition of content in
one area, which is actually a single table cell. Developers are
expected
to use the minimum of HTML, and preferably no JavaScript at all. It's
pretty restrictive, and standard university web pages are fairly dull,
as you might imagine.
Normally I'd be sympathetic to developers who bent the system rules a
bit (a few in-line styles etc).. But in the pages I'm bothered about, a
whole (or nearly whole) HTML page has been dumped into the (user
content
area) table cell. Each page source is very lengthy, but you'll see what
I mean - just search for a second <head> or <html> tag.
http://www.rmit.edu.au/ad/arch ..
http://www.rmit.edu.au/industrial
http://www.rmit.edu.au/ad
...and so on (plenty more of these in that part of the website)
It's been very difficult for me to make a case to change these pages,
because they look fine (if you don't check the structure). In fact they
look better than a lot of other pages on the university web site.
Should
these pages be changed.. or should *I* have my head examined? My main
question is - why do browsers allow this kind of mess to work?
Cheers, Meredith Kidby
Teaching & Learning Online Group
Design & Social Context Portfolio
RMIT Univesity
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