- From: Spartanicus <spartanicus.3@ntlworld.ie>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:05:16 +0000
"Mike Schinkel" <mikeschinkel at gmail.com> wrote: >> Google, Yahoo and MSN aren't in the business of enforcing a >> standards- compliance agenda. > >Who is? A better question to ask would be "to whom does it matter?". SE's have nothing to gain from markup validity. They should serve up results relevant to their users, their users use tag soup parsers with error correcting mechanisms. What might be a slight bonus to them: a properly defined error handling mechanism that is very closely matched to what browsers do, ergo what the WhatWG parsing spec aims for. >And at the risk of sounding snarky, can you point me to a >reference where is it codified that they are not (at least partially) in the >business of standards? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tech.msn.com Should give some indication. (I had to cheat slightly with MSN, the sneaky boys made the home page on msn.com validate to throw people off, but as I suspected the document at the first link from msn.com I tried failed validation :-) -- Spartanicus (email whitelist in use, non list-server mail will not be seen)
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