RE: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 2 Feb 2007, at 11:15, Brian Butterworth wrote: If you have a widescreen TV and you havn't gone into the menus to set the output format to 16:9 then everyone is simply going to look fat and you're missing the pictures. What was the point of buying a widescreen TV if you don't

RE: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-05 Thread Kevin Hinde
I'll have to look into the meta tag. Given we're not serving the file as that mime type, changing it will probably upset someone else. But definitely give it due consideration. The W3C recommends that you *should* serve XHTML as application/xhtml+xml, but you *may* serve it as text/html if you

Re: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-04 Thread James Cridland
On 2/1/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for doing a good job here, Thankfully Auntie is leading the way in this area cough Other media sites have been validating correctly long before the BBC. (Though I note to my shame that the one I'm in charge of, which was validating,

Re: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-04 Thread Andrew Disley
On 2 Feb 2007, at 11:15, Brian Butterworth wrote: If you have a widescreen TV and you havn't gone into the menus to set the output format to 16:9 then everyone is simply going to look fat and you're missing the pictures. What was the point of buying a widescreen TV if you don't actually

RE: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Holmes
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Miller Sent: 01 February 2007 21:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!! Total validator ( http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/ValidatorForm ) appears

RE: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
(snip) Can you have a word with the News 24 team about the new clock format [1] they should revert it back to the old format[2] I could see that one. [1] New Clock Format - http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplified/ 376885495/ [2] Old Clock Format -

[backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-01 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, Between all the debate about DRM, iPlayer and the PSP document. I'm proud to say, the BBC got its act together and produced the first Homepage which validates to the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard. Hopefully this shows our true commitment to standards, which will influence more parts of the

Re: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!

2007-02-01 Thread vijay chopra
Thank you for doing a good job here, Thankfully Auntie is leading the way in this area, now that's done, it can be used as a preident to move and adhere to open standards in all the BBCs online activities. Once the whole of *.bbc.co.uk/* validates, perhaps you can standrdise on multimedia