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Posted by John Clayton on 12/07/07 23:10
"cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote in message
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> Many sites of large corporations
> have been up many years and have just been patched from time to time.
> As a result they are a tag soup of many versions of html and sometimes
> xhtml and will validate as nothing. They tend to get fixed only to
> correct a problem produced by an upgrade of some browser, and the fix
> is often the minimum that will get rid of the problem - not a complete
> rewrite of the site in valid code. One could neary say, the larger the
> corporation and the older their web site, the more validation errors
> it has. I suspect that because the code on many sites is extremely
> long and would require much time to update, the powers-that-be in the
> corporation see no need to spend a lot of money to update the site to
> modern code and take the attitude that the site should just be kept
> working with the minimum cost for writing code.
Never mind big companies, same pretty well applies to our tiny,
insignificant company.
we try (tried) to write compliantly, then altered things about (often) over
several years and ended up with the "tag soup" described above.
To be honest, when you're trying to do all the other stuff in a business as
well, working out staff wages, chasing debtors, making things, persuing
work, learning to spell :) Compliance with legislation, elven safety,
languages.
Well we try to write good html but, given the choice of the pub on the way
home or studying the latest css.....what would most people do?
But thanks for all the good stuff (and humour) I enjoy on here!
John
www.ossettmouldings.com
- for info. only, please don't critique - certainly not brutally
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