Fun_People Archive
12 Feb
Microsoft beats Netscape in the race for non-conformance!

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 15:04:28 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Microsoft beats Netscape in the race for non-conformance!

[I knew ol' MS was due for a prize of some kind...  -psl]

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
From: Ka-Ping Yee <kryee@novice.uwaterloo.ca>

In a previous message on conformance, i wrote:
: Well -- if we look at how many user agent manufacturers are really
: paying attention to the standards specification, adding something like
: this is not likely to be effective on its own.  Just have a look at
: the number of members of the W3C that don't bother to write correct HTML!

... but forgot to include this URL:

        http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~kryee/w3c.html

Updated daily.  Watch the exciting standings!

Aside from JIS-encoded documents which cause nsgmls to complain loudly,
the top violators are Microsoft, in first place with 153 errors on their
home page at http://www.microsoft.com/, and Netscape, in second place with
98 errors on their home page at http://home.netscape.com/.  DTDs please?

Congratulations to Architecture Projects Management Ltd., Digital
Equipment Corporation, INRETS, and UKERNA on their correct use of
the HyperText Markup Language.

Ping (Ka-Ping Yee):  3A Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
kryee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, St. Paul's College, Waterloo N2L 3G5, 519 7258008
CWSF 89, 90, 92; LIYSF 90, 91; Shad Valley 92; DOE 93; IMO 91, 93; ACMIPC 94
-- Hiyama Hikaru - Skuld - Hayakawa Moemi - Tendou Akane - Ayukawa Madoka --

© 1996 Peter Langston