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Web :: General :: Microsoft Windows Vista website not displaying correctly


By: VGR France  Date: 27/03/2007 14:25:59  English  Points: 20 Status: Answered
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does anyone know why ? I'm using the latest Mozilla Firefox 2 but the site displays equally bad when viewed in Internet Exploder

the base URI is Microsoft's Windows Vista Home Page
By: VGR Date: 27/03/2007 14:35:59 English  Type : Comment
Wait! I found why ;-)

It displays "correctly" when in "compatibility" (quirks) mode.

Even in 2007, Microsoft is not yet able to build a website that has at least basic HTML 4.01 (1997 ;-) requirements like a DOCTYPE, no STYLE tags in the BODY, valid javascript code, valid ALT attributes for IMG tags, valid META tags with a "content=" clause, SCRIPT with a "type=text/javascript" associated, escaped ampersands (&) in A HREFs, not even speaking of avoiding inadmissible stuff like NOBR, old-fashioned LAYER or outdated proprietary attributes on BODY tags and IFRAME, or ABSMIDDLE on the IMG tag ... don't they know basic CSS1 ?

Even some TD colours are not valid (they lack the #, an error in the pure HTML 2.0 style of ten years ago).

Silly Billy ;-)

HTML Validator result ---------------------- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx Info: Document content looks like HTML Proprietary 0 errors / 132 warnings line 2 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration line 99 column 82 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here line 125 column 509 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here line 125 column 517 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here line 127 column 2515 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 127 column 2515 - Warning: missing </nobr> before <div> line 127 column 2547 - Warning: inserting implicit <nobr> line 127 column 2655 - Warning: discarding unexpected </nobr> line 142 column 426 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements line 142 column 426 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements line 253 column 2919 - Warning: missing </a> before <table> line 255 column 603 - Warning: discarding unexpected </a> line 255 column 730 - Warning: missing </a> before <table> [repeated 60 times] line 330 column 123 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <td> elements line 388 column 266 - Warning: missing </a> before <table> line 388 column 697 - Warning: discarding unexpected </a> line 388 column 729 - Warning: missing </a> before <table> line 388 column 1177 - Warning: discarding unexpected </a> line 388 column 1209 - Warning: missing </a> before <table> line 388 column 1643 - Warning: discarding unexpected </a> line 388 column 1675 - Warning: missing </a> before <table> line 388 column 2107 - Warning: discarding unexpected </a> line 388 column 2371 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <td> elements line 533 column 22 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements line 546 column 343 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 444 - Warning: <wbr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 449 - Warning: discarding unexpected </wbr> line 546 column 455 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 551 - Warning: <wbr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 556 - Warning: discarding unexpected </wbr> line 546 column 562 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 651 - Warning: <wbr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 656 - Warning: discarding unexpected </wbr> line 546 column 662 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 946 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 1044 - Warning: <wbr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 1049 - Warning: discarding unexpected </wbr> line 546 column 1055 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 1151 - Warning: <wbr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 1156 - Warning: discarding unexpected </wbr> line 546 column 1162 - Warning: <nobr> is not approved by W3C line 546 column 2224 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&WT.js" line 546 column 2253 - Warning: <layer> is not approved by W3C line 2 column 91 - Warning: <meta> lacks "content" attribute line 123 column 119 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute line 125 column 664 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute line 125 column 955 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute line 127 column 58 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "topmargin" line 127 column 58 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "leftmargin" line 127 column 58 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "marginwidth" line 127 column 58 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "marginheight" line 127 column 289 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height" line 127 column 904 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute line 127 column 1617 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height" line 127 column 1805 - Warning: <td> attribute "bgcolor" had invalid value "2668A2" and has been replaced line 129 column 7 - Warning: <img> proprietary attribute value "absmiddle" line 323 column 67 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 323 column 305 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 328 column 285 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 513 column 40 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 515 column 180 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 520 column 15 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute line 520 column 129 - Warning: <iframe> proprietary attribute "topmargin" line 520 column 129 - Warning: <iframe> proprietary attribute "leftmargin" line 524 column 5 - Warning: <iframe> proprietary attribute "framespacing" line 528 column 130 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 533 column 106 - Warning: <img> proprietary attribute value "absmiddle" line 546 column 2086 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 127 column 2515 - Warning: trimming empty <nobr>

By: VGR Date: 19/06/2007 18:04:30 English  Type : Answer
I checked today the status of the issue : Microsoft's Vista Home Site is awfully slow, and is still as incorrectly coded as it was two months ago. Microsoft doesn't seem to care for respecting web standards, even basic HTML ones. I close this question.

Microsoft web site = "Info: Document content looks like HTML Proprietary"

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