- From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:54:28 +0300
> Although microsoft.com is valid, they don't really care about standards > that much. The site uses an HTML 4.0 Transitional DOCTYPE that triggers > quirks mode. Well, when site goes from hundreds of validation errors to valid page I wouldn't dare to say company doesn't care about standards. I'd call it an improvement. I do not see a problem with Transitional DOCTYPE - it is a part of the standards. At least they honestly adhere to what they declare - in that sense I prefer valid HTML Transitional to invalid XHTML. This is not to say that microsoft.com code is perfect, but I appreciate progress they have made (and MSN Search uses HTML4.01 strict). On the other hand Google is also fair - they do not declare any DOCTYPE, so technically they admit their code to be tag-soup. It is better than making false claims putting some DOCTYPE into code without any intention to validate. There are many technical subtleties, but please in mind my initial point - to show people who encounter web standards maybe for the first time that some big names _do care_ about web standards. If such giants as MS and Google both care that may encourage some web developer to pay more attention too. Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/
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