JeffM wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
In my work I need to monitor local deaths at this site:
<http://www.montcopa.org/registerofwillsorphanscourt/rwocviewer/>
Ah. Clerical staff. That explains a lot.
No, it doesn't. I'm not clerical staff, and your repeated attempts to
demean me only reveal the bankruptcy of your argument. If you had valid
arguments, you wouldn't have to stoop to mud-slinging.
It's hard enough for a technical staff to implement
the specs that the customer's contract list.
When the marketing boys get their fingers into things
and start expanding the *want* list,
things get exponentially more difficult.
The job of a browser:
Take the HTML code on an HTML page
and translate it into a corresponding display on the screen
(or do whatever is asked by that STANDARD code).
What you want:
<sarc> Thanks for telling me. I really had no idea what I wanted, I need
you to tell me. </sarc>
Besides rendering STANDARD code,
make provisions in the browser's codebase
for all 237 ways that a clumsy page builder can screw that up.
Now multiply that by the number of HTML instructions available.
Like I said: exponentially more difficult.
If you had ever done any technical development work,
you would see what a burden that puts on the browser developers
--and it is completely UNNECESSARY.
Unless of course you want your users to be able to USE the damn thing in
the real world.
I actually do understand the difficulties, but unlike the fantasy Paul
that you create so you can knock him down, the real Paul wants a browser
that handles the /most common/ developer errors. The techniques exist
(or you could invent your own), as demonstrated by the existence of
browsers that do cope. I never asked for perfection, but it's very
convenient for you to pretend that I did, because straw men are easy to
knock down.
A method to resolve this:
Have the browser developers incorporate
the HTML Validator extension into the core code.
When a crap site is encountered, a box pops up.
If the page has <20 errors, the box is small.
If the page has 20 < errors > 100, the box is larger.
If the page has >100 errors, the box covers the screen and says
"THE DEVELOPER OF THIS PAGE IS A MORON.
YOU WILL NEED TO USE A WEB BROWSER
DEVELOPED BY MORONS TO VIEW IT.
There. Problem solved.
Yeah, you've solved it by driving your customers away. Congrats. How
should we make out your bonus check?
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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