http://www.microsoft.com

In alliance with web compliance standards, Microsoft has violated the official W3C standards - who would have thought? It came to my attention when browsing through daily posts at Digg.com, when I came upon “Is Microsoft learning from Web standards mistakes?” by Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia Thursday, July 19 2007 04:49 PM.

After reading the article, I became curious as to how compliant Microsoft’s websites actually are. Doing a W3C web standards check of http://www.microsoft.com, the website failed violation with a mere 28 errors. Then I went to “Get it now - Internet Explorer 7 downloads.” This site, not only does not include a “DOCTYPE Declaration,” it failed with 136 validation errors !!!!

So what’s this all about? - - “Do as I say, not as I do” - - appears to be the message from “The King.” So, where are we to go from here? Where are we to go for clean, uncompromising service?

… this is definitely a sour apple for all us professionals trying to obtain clean markup standards!!

SHAME ON YOU, MICROSOFT!

Even so, I have dignity - I have pride - I will do my best to comply with The World Wide Web Consortium, yet I realize that some of the ads I place on my site do not comply, at least my own mark-up is highly superlative to most of the Microsoft websites (I see MSN passed).

There still remains something all of us can do - use the better browser -

Sites I found relating to this topic:

Does Microsoft Care About Web Standards?
4/29/2004
http://www.alttags.org/archives/2004/04/29/33/

Is Microsoft learning from Web standards mistakes?
By Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia
Thursday, July 19 2007 04:49 PM
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044908,62028670,00.htm

Acid2 Browser Test
Acid2 is a test page, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Please take the Acid2 test!
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

Explorer Exposed!
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
These CSS bugs are all found only in Internet Explorer, versions 5 and higher. To see the demos properly, they must be viewed in IE, of course.

WTF? Microsoft steals Apple Universal Logo
http://flickr.com/photos/47714080@N00/309724870/

… sorry to disinfatuate all you IE users - and still, I am using Windows!?!?

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