On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Theo Markettos wrote:

Andrew Heenan wrote:
Another clue: The site worked perfectly well with the previous MSIE, and
with Opera, FF and Chrome. And suddenyly, because IE8*beta* comes along,
and the site fails, it's TfL's fault?

Well, it does cause the W3C validator to get terribly confused when parsing
it:

http://tinyurl.com/6fsksz
aka
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

19 Errors, 7 warning(s)

That's actually not too bad. For reference, when i feed the validator the
home page of a site my company had a substantial hand in, of a similar
complexity to the TfL home page, i get 85 Errors, 3 warning(s). Mind you,
ours declares itself to be XHTML 1.0 Strict (which is a joke and a half),
whilst TfL's is XHTML 1.0 Transitional. If i relax the doctype for ours to
Transitional, it goes down to just 70 errors and 4 warnings!

On the TfL page, the errors are all due to some unescaped URLs, and an A
tag that should be a. Maybe four actual errors. Not bad!

tom

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