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Why doesn't Destructiod like the W3C?
iNerd \| 5:27 AM on 11.10.2007	12 comments

This isn't much of a blog, more of a point that's been annoying me. Why the hell do the blog pages have no xhtml document type? While I realse this is something pretty nerdy to notice it mean's that I have to keep swapping my Text encoding back over from Unicode(UTF-8) to Western Latin whenever I don't want to be annoyed by the odd ???? where things like apostrophies or any non standard (say accented) characters.

Cmon code monkys, this isn't hard. Fix it!

Infact here, just copy and paste:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

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9 comments | showing # 1 to 9

Justice

I did wonder this myself

Pedro Blandino

actually, that would be a false thing to do. there's allot of bad scripting on elephant honestly. check out the html validation here.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.destructoid.com%2Felephant%2Findex.phtml
817 Errors ... ouch!

and to show you i know my crap :P
here's my project site's validation.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fslashinggames.org%2F

BluDesign

I was up all last night worrying over this exact same thing. I had blood in my poo over it. The doctor says I have ulcers.

Mxyzptlk

At least you get shitty free health care.

Justice

Last time I used the validator with dtoid it was just 715 errors.

bluemeep

W3C is a jerk who keeps telling me what to do like they're the boss of me.

Eschatos

Fuck the W3C! Fight the power! I demand the right for as many errors in code as I like!

Pedro Blandino

i created my own system lemon. i took time to make sure it will work on all possible browsers. thats why w3c is here for :P. all those errors just show how lazy some people are....

Tron Knotts

Yeah W3C would be a boon to the system, but it could work to invalidate the servers.

Until Ym3 coding is put through the bug testing phase, then 2.3 level sub-dividers are just join sub-dividers are just going to have to do with what we have now.

Sub -ZERO dividers is more like it, huh guys!?!?!?

LOL

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