- From: Evans, Donald <Donald.Evans@corp.aol.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:01:19 -0500
- To: "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Maybe we can share that can of dog food? http://www.wats.ca This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict! Failed validation, 13 Errors http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wats.ca%2F&charset=%2 8detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 Or, maybe I am just grumpy today too! ;-) ---don -----Original Message----- From: John Foliot [mailto:foliot@wats.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:13 PM To: Evans, Donald Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org Subject: RE: DHTML Style Guide: http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide Evans, Donald wrote: > We have a new location for the working document. > > Please bookmark: http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide > I really wish we could at eat our own dog food (or at least serve it up). This document contains 399 code validation errors, including but not limited to a DTD of XHTML 1.0 Strict and a navigation menu list that has open list item elements (<li>), some <meta> tags closed (<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />) and others open (<meta name="Keywords" content="Developer network, ..., boxley">) - images too (<img src="/images/dev_aol_com.gif" alt="The AOL Developer Network" id="logo">), and a javascript array inside the <body> element, which is not allowed, along with (<script language="JavaScript">) with no "type" specified. And that's just a start. I am pleased as punch that WCAG 2 is in Last Call, honest I am. But until that is the prescribed Recommendation or Guideline from the W3C, we are left with WCAG 1, which clearly states that documents should validate to formal published grammars (Priority 2, 3.2). Given that this note was posted *exclusively* to a WAI list (wai-xtech@w3.org), I suppose that the impact is minimal. But it's hard enough to have some people take us seriously (hello WHATWG) when we ourselves cannot do simple things right. Or am I just being cranky and pedantic this Thursday morning? JF
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