Re: Oregano group. Was: Oragano 1 not fetching

In article <4fa81594c3News+14030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard
Torrens <News+14030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But even when trying a bit of general browsing with
Netsurf 1.2 (22 March 2008) (because the PC had been
turned off, I find some 45% (estimate, obviously) of
sites do not display properly, with chunks of text
overlapping other chunks of text or graphics, and there
was one last night that displayed fine in Fresco, while
Netsurf displayed only the graphics around the edge,
but none of the text that was of interest.

You could drop the offending URL into
http://validator.w3.org and send the site the result.

Yes, I could. I do, as a matter of policy, put all my own
webpages through it (though I must admit to not always
rechecking after making minor alterations, as I should.)

If enough people pointed dud sites to the validator these
sites might take notice!

I imagine that most of the sites in question are not written
by the owner of the site, so they would have to pass on
comments from http://validator.w3.org to their website
designer, who, no doubt, would charge a fee to tell the
owner to write back to me telling me to use a proper
browser, ie IE.

In the two cases that I have been able to speak directly to
financial institutions IT people about failures of their
websites to work with non standard (ie not IE) browsers I
was told that the browser I wanted to use (in both cases
Opera under Windows 95) was that Opera did not offer the
specific security features that there site used.

I know that this is a different area completely from invalid
HTML (though I do not doubt that it was), but it does
highlight the problems.

Or maybe the pigs that run them have to grow wings first.

Quite.

OTOH if the validator wasn't quite so pedantic...

Indeed. I have had a page that had previously validated
properly throw up over 20 errors after I added a single line
supplied by Google to help them index the page better.

As it was some months after adding the line (in the page
header) it took me a long time to find out that the actual
error was a slash at the end of the Google line (there
because Google assumed a version of xhtml instead HTML
4.xx).

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