Submission + - Google.com missing closing HTML tags? Standards? (w3.org)
yosofun writes: From a quick viewsource, any casual user can easily see that Google.com is missing the closing HTML and BODY tags (Load up the page. View Source. Use the Find feature in your browser, and search for "</html>" or "</body>"). Why?
W3C Validator shows 35 errors and 2 warnings for google.com. Similar validation crawls for Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Yahoo.com show errors as well. There are web designers who would strive inhuman hours to achieve standards-compliant perfection, and yet the trend with the sites visited most by folks on the Internet is to ignore standards. What does this mean — are standards worth all that prissiness?
W3C Validator shows 35 errors and 2 warnings for google.com. Similar validation crawls for Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Yahoo.com show errors as well. There are web designers who would strive inhuman hours to achieve standards-compliant perfection, and yet the trend with the sites visited most by folks on the Internet is to ignore standards. What does this mean — are standards worth all that prissiness?