Posts Tagged Windows Live Spaces

HTML Standards? Anyone? Anyone?

Only a sleight deviation, I promise…I have a question for the spaces.live team. Why on earth can’t you get the headers right on these pages? Firefox can handle it, but I truly wonder what some older browsers do with this site. The W3C says this about this very page:

The MIME Media Type
(application/xhtml+xml) indicated parse mode should be XML, but the DOCTYPE Declaration indicates
SGML mode. Using XML mode based on the Content-Type header."

This is just one of 469 validation failures.

To make matters worse, this site also fails the Section 508 test (Google: “Cynthia Says”), which is designed for setting a minimum bar for accessibility standards.

OK… sorry. It’s not like my Blogger account fairs much better (but I think David Shae has some Standards-compliant templates in their somewhere…)

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Windows Live Spaces fails validation

Sorry, but I’m just a little annoyed at the moment. In order to post a comment on a blog on this system I had to create an account. Normally, that’s OK with me. With spam and abuse issues at perhaps their greatest height, logging in offers a sense of protection. What I don’t like is the fact that I get a spiffy new hotmail email address. What I don’t like is all the user interface oddities and jumpiness. What I don’t like is that this site fails W3C’s validation with 107 errors. Also, page loads seem painfully slow (and I’m running on a pretty nice system using a fast network).

OK, I’m done complaining! Carry on.

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