Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/15/07 15:20

Scripsit aioe-user:

> Too many years ago to remember I got my first lesson in
> creating HTM pages and here's what an entire HTM file
> with the letter X then looked like.
>
> «html»«body»X«/body»«/html»

That must have been in some other universe. In this universe, HTML tags
start with "<" and end with ">", not guillemets. If you meant to "protect"
newsreaders from treating your message content as HTML, then the answer is
that people of course need to use newreaders that don't do such
<font size="7" color="red"><blink>silly things</blink></font>

> Total size 28 bytes,

Why would that matter? You could shrink the invalid document to
X
and have it rendered the same way.

> It was nice, it "was" both lean and (therefore) fast!
> An important consideration back when 56k was still
> unheard of.

What's the problem, really?

> So lately I decided to show my first ever HTM page to the
> W3C facility ...it failed from A to Z

The only thing that passing the "facility" requires in your example is that
you put a suitable doctype declaration at the start (and you can actually
get away with it if you like) and a <title> element, which is definitely not
vain if the document has any content of any importance, since <title> is the
pragmatically most important element.

> 281 byte file instead of 28

Are you serious in your ignorance or are you just trolling?

> Then it got much worse. Another page flunked because it
> was missing 'empties' like alt=""

Really? How many bytes does alt="" add as compared with the image size?
Again, are you trolling or just clueless?

The rest of your post (a bulk of output from some software) suggests that
you are both clueless and trolling. Please keep using the same forged
identity until you have any clue. Thank you in advance.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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