-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 November 2003 11:27, you wrote: > > The validator, only the validator, nothing but the validator! > > yea, yea, of course. and still you can't reasonably expect that all web > sites in the entire world will be made to be 100% validator friendly. I'd > still expeect that I would be able to use my favorite web browser to view > them. Having 100% standard validating web may or may not be realistic goal, but it's something we should adhere too, as that is the root of the "I cannot view this in X" problem.
As was stated before, if you use a browser that owes, say, < 1% of the market, then arguments like "support my browser!" are weak - from the webmaster's point of view, he just cannot test his website on all browser variants ever written. However, requesting a website to conform to open standards is much more convincing, there's a written reference(W3C TR's), and as long as you follow them, they will work on all browsers(in theory). Of course, this "write once, browse everywhere" concept can be pretty fragile when some browsers that have too much market share(Ahem... Explorer... Ahem..) have broken or partial implementations, but these can be dealt with some compromises. > My point (which you managed to completly miss and distort), is that while a > list of sites that do not conform to W3 validator would be nice (and would > probably encompass 99.9% of Israeli web sites), a list of web sites that > aren't usable on FOSS web browsers, as Amichai suggested, would be much > more useful (and smaller). You have a point indeed... Even Hamakor's site does not validate, these are mostly minor violations, which most browsers will be able to cope with, unless they are VERY strict - it does not mean it shouldn't be corrected, but site like this shouldn't be a primary focus:-) I would say, list of site which violate W3C's standards in a brutal way, when it's not needed, and when it seriously affects their useability on alternative browsers. Idan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r29zHT1NNTuNW1YRAiZiAJ47stIK8eKihC0Yoo7Ub9v2Pnu5YgCggu7B czDglxpAdHPRwEnXeFjYf88= =tj3i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
