W3C barfs on Anandtech pages

highwire

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If I feed an Anandtech page to http://validator.w3.org/ it produces about a 100 errors. This location will check an internet page for errors or lack of compliance with standards.

So, is it someone is not paying attention to making things comply with internet standards?

Maybe this has something to do with the complaints about cranky browsers I've seen in other threads.

The Anandtech pages are identified (look at the page source) as being
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&quot;>.

When the page is tested as such, it produces errors.

Mabybe there is a simple answer. But if the answer is &quot;We don't do the standards thing, we do the Microsoft thing&quot; - they should do hard time.

Any enlightenment out there?
 

highwire

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Russ-
I can understand how someone trying to get rid off a lot of 128k mem sticks at this time might be a bit grouchy, but this snippiness is beneath you.

The internet only works because of standards, it's not a little thing.

Browsers are based on standards. If a browser doesn't work right with a website, where is the problem? INQUIRING minds may want to know.

 

Jason Clark

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highwire, I'd have suggest you do some reading on dynamic driven sites, and how they work. In some places we dont close font tags just to save bandwidth (i.e within table cells etc.). There are many reasons why parts of DYNAMICALLY CREATED HTML aren't completely conformant to standards. Case Closed.

BTW just checked microsoft.com in that useless utility it fails, www.allaire.com (the makers of coldfusion) fails, sun.com fails Guess you better contact those developers? ;)