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Chill-out Batman!
Chill-out Batman!
Posted Mar 21, 2008 6:48 UTC (Fri) by Obsid (guest, #42617)In reply to: Holy microcrap Batman! by mgb
Parent article: A tour of the Microsoft open source lab
Hey "mgb", We noticed this already, this should be fixed now. Keep your pants on next time man! ...no, really, keep them on. Steve
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même microcrap
Posted Mar 21, 2008 7:57 UTC (Fri) by mgb (subscriber, #3226) [Link]
You fixed one kind of problem Steve, but you created new problems. And there are many unrelated problems that have not been addressed. You now have no IMG WIDTH/HEIGHT attributes, which slows page rendering. You also have no IMG ALT attributes, so the page is compromised for those with text mode browsers or text-to-speech browsers. And you forgot to remove the old anchors although there's nothing left between the A and /A so they're unclickable and therefore just a waste of resources. They're not even commented out. But performance and accessibility problems are only the tip of the iceberg. Even after your "fix" there are a mind-blowing 249 XHTML validation errors just from that one page. Even humans generate better HTML than Community Server! By way of comparison, the page for this article downloads quickly, renders quickly, and has zero validation errors. (Nice job Mr Corbet!) Why not install some commercial-grade FLOSS blogging software on one of those Linux boxes in your lab, at least until Community Server is ready for alpha testing?