Re: this validation stuff for webpages

On 21/06/2008 14:04, Michaelangelo wrote:
wtwjgc (Joe), having carefully considered all the angles, harangued us with the following:
On 21/06/2008 10:53, Michaelangelo wrote:
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Except that, despite Microsoft's claims that IE7 is compliant, the fact is that IE7 is not fully compliant and fails badly on many things.

Even M$ accept IE7 does not conform to the W3 standard. They are attempting to get more compliant with IE8 but still advise everyone creating websites to add a meta tag to help them.

It's not strictly true to say that nothing's been updated since 1999. That only applies to HTML 4.01 which was superceded by XHTML and CSS.

Not superseded, they are just different ways of interpreting HTML.
HTML 5 will replace XHTML. <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/>

Superseded in that, since XHTML appeared, there has been no update to 4.01 and, therefore, no change to the validation of it.


No need to update it until now. XHTML was introduced 1 month after HTML4.01 to allow XML/DOM support (Jan 2000). HTML is still the current standard. HTML5 will replace HTML4 and XHTML. M$ have had plenty of time to create a compliant browser but haven't bothered.

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