http://www.tomrafteryit.net/standards-compliant-search-engines/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/standards-compliant-search-engines/#comment-1556 Ed Byrne Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:23:06 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=364#comment-1556 Funny ... I actually looked at the web sites for the top 10 companies in Ireland, and only 1 of them passed ALL standards tests ... Microsoft!!! (Dell were one of the worst). Funny … I actually looked at the web sites for the top 10 companies in Ireland, and only 1 of them passed ALL standards tests … Microsoft!!! (Dell were one of the worst).

]]> http://www.tomrafteryit.net/standards-compliant-search-engines/#comment-1553 hostyle Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:22:51 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/?p=364#comment-1553 Rather amusing since MS browsers do not support one of the very basic XHTML 1.0 requirements - namely accepting the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. XHTML is good in that it encourages better code (if it validates) and I use it pretty much everywhere but thats by personal choice and I am aware of the problems with using it: See http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml for more details. Rather amusing since MS browsers do not support one of the very basic XHTML 1.0 requirements - namely accepting the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. XHTML is good in that it encourages better code (if it validates) and I use it pretty much everywhere but thats by personal choice and I am aware of the problems with using it: See http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml for more details.

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