Brian Heinrich typed: > Bundy wrote: > >> Karl typed: >> >>> Mozilla 0.9.9 doesn't display www.drudgereport.com correctly. One of >>> the most popular Web sites. >>> >>> Karl >> >> >> >> Bug that deals with the horizontal line <hr> within a table tag with >> height attrabutes. The tag is W3C (like they matter) complaint >> although the site isn't, like most site. >> >> -- >> Kyle >> > > Um, Kyle, lemme ask you this: Can you imagine trying to design a web > site if all there were were proprietary tags? The W3C matters. A lot.
Not to a lot of webmasters. What matters is if the page looks good on MS Explorer while using Front Page to compose it. Heck, mozilla.org isn't totally compliant. Why waste time (which is money) trying to get your website to work for a small minority of web surfers? Drudge could very easily fix the site by getting rid of the height tag on those two tables that don't load right and make no sense to the outlook of his page. But then again, since they are compliant, why should he? > So do standards. Think of all the [insert favourite denigrating term > here] who're still using NN 4.x and wondering why pages don't display > correctly, &c. And, slowly, there seem to be more and more sites that > use valid mark-up, which seems to me to be a good thing. > > — Brian >
