Validity would be nice
In-Valids is an enjoyable rant by Joe Clark chastising the big guys on the web for being completely incapable of producing valid HTML.
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In-Valids is an enjoyable rant by Joe Clark chastising the big guys on the web for being completely incapable of producing valid HTML.
Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/02/11/validityWouldBeNice
I was going to say that not all corporates are guilty of invalid code.
I was going to quote Nationwide (http://www.nationwide.co.uk/default.asp). Oh look, I just did.
Thing is, it's so *nearly* there it hurts. And I will try to get that sorted ASAP.
So, I just checked the next level of pages and discovered that recent additions had introduced bunches of other validation problems:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=h ttp%3A//www.nationwide.co.uk/credit-card/default.h tm&input=yes
(we had to live with the marginheight/width failures but apart from that they validated very well before)
Classic HTML smudge.
So I went another leve down and found what I expected to: http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=h ttp%3A//www.nationwide.co.uk/banking/current-accou nt/default.htm&input=yes
A page that passes on all but the aforementioned marginheight problems.
Nationwide is not a multi-national, but it is a the world's biggest building society with billions in reserves and what have you - certainly not the bloke at home running his personal web log. It kind of qualifies as the 'megacorp' that Joe Clark mentions
Ian - 13th February 2003 17:35 - #