RE: Validating - bug ?

For another demonstration, graysonline.com (one of Australia's largest e-commerce sites) is 100% ASP.NET and 100% XHTML1.1.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graysonline.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

This is the case study we use in the talk I linked to.

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From: www-validator-request@w3.org [www-validator-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) [P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 9:24 AM
To: David Dorward
Cc: W3C Validator Community
Subject: Re: Validating - bug ?

David Dorward wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2010, at 23:08, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>> David Dorward wrote:
>>
>>> Personally, I'd avoid ASP.NET, especially web forms (which I think are the cause of this problem).
>>
>> May I ask why ?
>
> Because I keep seeing people having this problem.
 > Everything I've heard suggests that it is a system
 > that you have to fight for control over your markup.

Well, I made a foray into ASP.NET (and C#, at the same time)
for the first time ever recently, and the only problem I
experienced was persuading the compiler to accept my input
as UTF-8 and not ASCII; once I discovered the necessity
for the BOM, I had no other problems.  Below is a link to the
result, which is clearly a work in progress yet which also
demonstrates that one can write valid dynamic web forms in
C# using the ASP.NET infrastructure :

        http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/porphyrogenitus/Autograph-MSS-V2.3.aspx

Philip Taylor

Received on Monday, 18 October 2010 22:28:36 UTC