- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:23:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, JohnTNYC <johntnyc@yahoo.com>, www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > At 04:33 PM 5/24/2001 , Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > >* Kynn Bartlett wrote: > > >Why does anyone think that embarrassment is going to produce any > > >changes? > >It's a matter of fact. > > It is? > > >The Macintosh web browser iCab > >(http://www.iCab.de/) has a little smiley that is green > >and happy if the page contains no errors and indicates > >by looking sad or whatever if the page has some or many > >errors. I've come across a lot of Macintosh web developers > >who suddenly care for valid HTML; they want that smiley. > > A very niche audience, a very niche browser; iCab is not having a > revolutionary effect on the world, your anecdotal evidence aside. > (Which I dispute anyway, but being anecdotal, it's indisputable by > definition.) lynx will complain 'bad HTML!' Netscape will show some really bad errors as coloured text in View Source; if it had a more visual indication without requiring viewing source, the world would be a better place. L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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