On 2/27/2010 4:30 AM, Rick Merrill wrote: > David Wilkinson wrote: >> JeffM wrote: >>> W3C==WorldWide Web Consortium. >>> *Those* are the folks who maintain the Web standards >>> and who get to say what is proper Web coding >>> and what is a steaming pile of broken code. >>> Their tools are readily available and they are free. >>> You can even select what levels of the standards you use. >>> There is no excuse for publishing crap code. >>> The reasons you encounter it are sloth and ignorance. >>> >>> In some diciplines, standards are enforced >>> (think: National Electrical Code). In others, charlatans abound. >> >> I thought the introduction of XHTML would improve things, but it seems only >> to >> have introduced more ways in which typical pages can fail validation. Why >> someone would specify the XHTML DocType when they have made no effort to >> validate the page is quite beyond me. >> > > We should have a site where validations (or violations) can be posted: a > wall of shame if you will. Otherwise there are no teeth to the standards. > >
Of course there are: You don't have to visit the site. If others want to continue to visit the site even with the errors, why do you care? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
