"George Hester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
9rvrqb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9rvrqb$[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Nov 2001: 

> I think you ought to be aware that these validatos my be living in
> the past. If a validator is using as Criteria HTML 1 then obviously
> it is going to say there is a whole slew of problems with a page
> written in HTML 4.01.  Same in reverse.  It may have nothing to do
> with bad code and everything to do with a validator that can't grow
> with the times.  Furthmore Browser's were made to ignore HTML code
> it couldn't understand.  But Mozilla is made to crash with HTML
> code it cannot understand.  And that is also the reason why 
> Netscape and Mozilla are doomed.  Agree with me or not these are
> the facts. 

A) Mozilla does not crash when it can't understand your poorly written 
code, at least it hasn't since like M18.  It simply doesn't do what you 
wanted it too, as any good browser should.

B) http://validator.w3.org is the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 
validator.  As the W3C is the source for HTML standards, I don't doubt 
they know what HTML is supposed to look like.  You can cry and whine 
that poorly written code doesn't affect page layout, and Mozilla is at 
fault but if the page is not HTML x.x complient, and the page is being 
drawn incorrectly, Mozilla is not at fault.  Web browsers are not 
intended to fix mistakes by dumb webmasters.  Do dumb thing, get dumb 
result.

BTW, paste this into a file and save it as test.html:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<this is an invalid HTML tag> This is some text </this is the end of an 
invalid HTML tag> <here> <are> <some> <more> <invalid> <tags> <and> 
<none> <of> <them> <are> <even> <terminated>
</body>
</html>

Both Netscape 6.2 and Mozilla silently ignore the invalid markup and 
just display "This is some text".  Where is the crash you speak of?

-- 
ICQ: N/A (temporarily)
AIM: FlyersR1 9
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_ = m

Reply via email to