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Post #200,964
by tuberculosis
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3/28/05 6:30:34 PM
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New We have started a quality push for our html
Largely spurred by our ramp up of fancy JavaScript.

My pitch to make this a front burner issue is based on the idea that, when faced with bad html, browser parsers will "keep on chugging" and make guesses about tag termination. Different browsers make different guesses. This results in differnt DOM structures for the same page. Different DOM structures freaks out the JavaScript on dynamically updated (AJAX style) pages and renders them unusable. We now spend 5-10 times the effort to clear QA because of JS errors caused by bad HTML. So to lower costs and improve agility, we must start validating our html using [link|http://validator.w3.org|http://validator.w3.org]



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Post #201,017
by pwhysall
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3/29/05 1:06:31 AM
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New Excellent, Smithers.
As a frequent user of your employer's website (and Ben's employer's site, too), I welcome any initiative to make it work better and/or faster.

Peter
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     XHTML Support? - (JayMehaffey) - (11) - March 3, 2005, 03:47:58 PM EST
         Re: XHTML Support? - (ubernostrum) - (9) - March 3, 2005, 04:08:16 PM EST
             +3. Post here more often. -NT - (Another Scott) - March 3, 2005, 05:51:39 PM EST
             Re: XHTML Support? - (JayMehaffey) - (7) - March 3, 2005, 08:59:45 PM EST
                 Oh they already have, they just haven't shown you yet -NT - (drewk) - March 3, 2005, 09:12:46 PM EST
                 There are numerous validators around. - (static) - (2) - March 3, 2005, 10:04:36 PM EST
                     Can't - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - March 6, 2005, 10:12:00 AM EST
                         Write some script - (Arkadiy) - March 6, 2005, 11:57:55 AM EST
                 What CMS are you using? - (ubernostrum) - March 4, 2005, 02:04:39 AM EST
                 We have started a quality push for our html - (tuberculosis) - (1) - March 28, 2005, 06:30:34 PM EST
                     Excellent, Smithers. - (pwhysall) - March 29, 2005, 01:06:31 AM EST
         We have chosen to target - (tuberculosis) - March 28, 2005, 06:22:32 PM EST

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