My Website - Now Serves HTML Standards!
Thursday, 27. August 2009, 10:38:49
I've spent the last couple of days experimenting with the webpage source; trying different doctypes and using alternate solutions instead of using the deprecated 'BACKGROUND' attribute for backgrounds until today, I started using the tag along with 'background-repeat: no-repeat;' instead of 'BACKGROUND'.
When validation time came, I was anxious to find out if I'd done enough. The page passed with flying colours!
I also checked my CSS in the page for standards compliance (SC); same result, classified as CSS 2.1. The page is constantly tested in Opera (latest weekly) so that I can use it as a baseline. Safari, Chrome and Opera had no display differences. 
There is no JavaScript in the page (which there used to be) because it doesn't need any. They're useless and take up time, size and my patience. JS can be messy, so I try to avoid it as much as possible.
Check the site: http://home.operabaker.operaunite.com/webserver/content/
Near the bottom of the page are the two locally stored images (to help latency) which are the valid CSS and valid HTML 4.01 logos. Why not click on them and see the results for yourself. BTW, my site was only a proof of concept to show that a [standards compliant] webpage can be made in Notepad. The site wasn't even live for a month (30th July - 21st August [Present]) and yet becomes compliant for everyone to see.
Unfortunately, there are some sites that do say they are SC. However, I checked some of them and turns out that they aren't. Why not test sites that say they're SC and if they're not, you can contact them regarding it and bring shame on them.
EDIT: I've fixed the problem; the file needed an XHTML extension.
UPDATE: I now have an XHTML version of the page available. Also standards compliant! Too bad Opera Unite doesn't support it yet.
When validation time came, I was anxious to find out if I'd done enough. The page passed with flying colours!
I also checked my CSS in the page for standards compliance (SC); same result, classified as CSS 2.1. The page is constantly tested in Opera (latest weekly) so that I can use it as a baseline. Safari, Chrome and Opera had no display differences. There is no JavaScript in the page (which there used to be) because it doesn't need any. They're useless and take up time, size and my patience. JS can be messy, so I try to avoid it as much as possible.
Check the site: http://home.operabaker.operaunite.com/webserver/content/
Near the bottom of the page are the two locally stored images (to help latency) which are the valid CSS and valid HTML 4.01 logos. Why not click on them and see the results for yourself. BTW, my site was only a proof of concept to show that a [standards compliant] webpage can be made in Notepad. The site wasn't even live for a month (30th July - 21st August [Present]) and yet becomes compliant for everyone to see.
Unfortunately, there are some sites that do say they are SC. However, I checked some of them and turns out that they aren't. Why not test sites that say they're SC and if they're not, you can contact them regarding it and bring shame on them.
EDIT: I've fixed the problem; the file needed an XHTML extension.
UPDATE: I now have an XHTML version of the page available. Also standards compliant! Too bad Opera Unite doesn't support it yet.
by using a plugin found in the system32 folder called pngfilt.dll and it's description says, "IE PNG plugin image decoder". As the name suggests, this dynamic link library is responsible for decoding PNG images in IE, but also for decoding images with alpha transparency. It's a plugin so really, IE is cheating it's support. IE depends on it so it can't be removed without any side effects (or it respawning). 
Just thinking now, who else would have found this?
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