Re: Shaming compaines into improving their HTML

At 1:16 AM +0200 2001/7/22, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>"We need an unforgiving browser that adheres strictly to the letter of
>the XHTML law in order to move forward to the future" says J. David
>Eisenberg in his article "Forgiving Browsers considered harmful" which
>can be found at http://www.alistapart.com/stories/forgiving/ and I agree
>with him, as I've already pointed out in this thread. Of course you are
>right and the browser should be also educational, but it should fail
>instead of rewarding authors for bad markup.

It doesn't directly hurt the author who has written "bad markup", it
directly hurts the -user-, and as an advocate for the user I can't
justify that direct harm to a naive user (who likely has no choice
as to what he runs on his system) even if ultimately it may produce
a more usable web site (by the time complaints get back to the
author).

-My- user experience has never been improved by discovering a site
was tested in IE and Netscape, but not in Opera; I don't want to spend
my time writing to the site admin, I want to use the site!

This is off-topic for validator list, though.

--Kynn

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Received on Sunday, 22 July 2001 04:17:12 UTC