Comments on: I am an XML disciple

By: Weiran Zhang

Weiran Zhang — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:34:51 +0000

Yeah, I only read the beginning!

By: Stevie

Stevie — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:30:58 +0000

I made a post telling you which posts to delete! And being a disciple yourself... I bet that not every page you have made was perfect first time!

AND I bet you have never had to write phantom markup like: <ramblings class="mad">

By: Weiran Zhang

Weiran Zhang — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:23:42 +0000

A proper disciple wouldn’t have made the mistake in the first place! I just thought you double posted.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:23:43 +0000

Hey! I spotted it! And it was you who deleted the correct code! Call yourself a computer scientist?!

By: Weiran Zhang

Weiran Zhang — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:26:16 +0000

And you call yourself an XML disciple!?

By: Stevie

Stevie — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:27:10 +0000

I accidentally posted twice earlier. Well, not really accidentally… I posted the second to correct the first. Then I posted a third time to get Waz to delete the third and the first posts. Now, the first remains, but the second and third have gone (well in Waz…!). So, SPOT THE MISTAKE! And it’s very apt!

By: Stevie

Stevie — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:22:21 +0000

Maybe we should build our own browser and make the Internet a strict dictatoship regime… all websites look the same… perhaps even make all the subject matter the same: all hail our glorious leader… ME! (sorry, meant us…)

By: James

James — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:59:36 +0000

Like that will ever happen!

It kinda already does, most browsers have two rendering modes, "Quirks" and "Standards-compliance". As you can tell by the titles, Quirks is a lot more forgiving with badly formed code, and Standards compliance tries to stick to the standard you define in the DOCTYPE declaration.

For example, my site looked fine in quirks mode in IE, but in standards complicancy, it less than gracefully degraded ;)

By: Stoyan

Stoyan — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:19:35 +0000

Steve, you’re right. BTW, I’ve recently installed a Tidy extension for Firefox. It gives you warining and error icons at the bottom right corner and you can click for details. It’s alarming the amount of warnings I get from the sites I go to. Oh well.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:19:40 +0000

Yeah, it would be better if browsers stopped saying "well we know roughly what you mean, hang on a minute and we'll sort it for you!". If browsers only accepted correctly written code, it would put pressure on web developers to produce their work properly.

Like that will ever happen!