Re: Content Transformation Guidelines 1v

Sean Patterson wrote:
> --In 4.2.9.1, item 2, we are saying that "altered content should
> validate according to an appropriate published formal grammar".
> However, much of the unaltered content on the web doesn't validate.  I
> don't think we can expect CT proxies to fix all of that content.  (For
> example, the W3C HTML validation site finds 44 errors with the Google
> home page.)

Sean,

didn't you once say that novarra is more likely to produce MobileOK 
content than mobile developers with hand-coded XHTML?

is your comment the result of careful observation of the reality of 
mobile browsers today?
or, more likely, does this have more to do with the fact that Novarra 
relies on tag-soup HTML also for mobile? (see an excerpt of www.w3.org 
as seen through NovarraVision 8.0 installed at Yahoo, but pretty much 
any other site will be rendered with similarly messy markup)

<html><head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" 
http-equiv="Content-Type"/><title>World Wide Web Consortium - Web 
Standards</title><style charset="utf-8" type="text/css">/</head><body 
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><form 
action="genformsub/123655480/0/2" method="post" id="NovMainForm" 
style="margin: 0px;">
<input type="hidden" value="123655480" name="novWml20EvtJS"/>
<input type="hidden" value="6946" name="novWml20EvtTopNode"/> <div 
style="border: medium none ; margin: 0px; padding: 3px; 
background-color: rgb(201, 222, 245); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); 
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Tahoma; font-size: 
small;"><input type="submit" value="<" name="PNovmore6930-1;" 
style="border: 1px solid rgb(134, 177, 224); background-color: rgb(183, 
212, 244); height: 19px; font-size: small;"/> 2/3 <input type="submit" 
value=">" name="PNovmore6963-3;" style="border: 1px solid rgb(134, 177, 
224); background-color: rgb(183, 212, 244); height: 19px; font-size: 
small;"/> </div><div style="font-size: 9.63px; background-color: 
rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a name="nweb_main"> </a> <div 
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 90, 156); 
font-size: 11.38px; font-weight: bold;"><b><a name="news"> </a><span 
style="font-size: 11.38px; font-weight: 
bold;"><b>News</b></span></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 
font-size: 9.63px;" id="item165"><div style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); 
font-size: 11.38px;"><b>Developer Gathering during W3C Technical Plenary 
Week</b></div><p>
  :
</body></html>

Anyway, just an extra example of how Novarra doesn't give a damn about 
standards. All they care about is the W3C stamp. Shame on W3C for 
letting Novarra get away with this in the face of its own MobileOK work 
(and in the face of what scores of mobile developers have been arguing 
about transcoding).

Luca

Received on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:12:23 UTC