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I wasn't suggesting that he host the pages, but rather that he provide a "universal BOINC portal" that read the project pages as they are (with the non-standard code (such as "<p>") and output them in his beloved XHTML.

What on earth would be the point of this? As a participant I don't care if the pages are compliant with W3C, XHTML or ancient greek provided my browser renders them correctly. I'll continue to use the project web site rather than any 'portal', so pages that I see will remain as they are. I suspect most participants will do likewise. If Rytis wants to do this as a technical exercise for his own interest that's fine, but it'll serve no useful purpose.

...and that's really the point. Rytis wants to update the pages to adhere to some standard that he's nominated. David Anderson disagrees, and is continuing with the standard to which he's been working.

Do I care? Not one bit.

If we ever see a day when browsers will only render XHTML-compliant documents then the argument will be different, but no browser writer is going to produce such a beast when the vast majority of the web does not (and probably won't ever) comply with that standard.

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I suppose then if your browser did not handle the web pages well then you would care. Perhaps your browser isn't handleing the code well and you don't know it. Of course, it is more likely that those that are blind and would like to help can't because of the non-compliance. That is what W3C is about, well that and a few other things. So, you don't care if handycapped people ever help the differant projects of BOINC? You don't care if people that have to use text to speach browsers can't access LHC or Seti or what-have-you. I am sure that those that require help to use the internet don't care about you either. So, enjoy your non-caring life and don't complain about IE.

Tatheg

What on earth would be the point of this? As a participant I don't care if the pages are compliant with W3C, XHTML or ancient greek provided my browser renders them correctly. I'll continue to use the project web site rather than any 'portal', so pages that I see will remain as they are. I suspect most participants will do likewise. If Rytis wants to do this as a technical exercise for his own interest that's fine, but it'll serve no useful purpose.


Do I care? Not one bit.

If we ever see a day when browsers will only render XHTML-compliant documents then the argument will be different, but no browser writer is going to produce such a beast when the vast majority of the web does not (and probably won't ever) comply with that standard.

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I suppose then if your browser did not handle the web pages well then you would care. Perhaps your browser isn't handleing the code well and you don't know it. Of course, it is more likely that those that are blind and would like to help can't because of the non-compliance. That is what W3C is about, well that and a few other things. So, you don't care if handycapped people ever help the differant projects of BOINC? You don't care if people that have to use text to speach browsers can't access LHC or Seti or what-have-you. I am sure that those that require help to use the internet don't care about you either. So, enjoy your non-caring life and don't complain about IE.

Tatheg

I'm not sure to whom you are addressing this, since the quotes seem to have gotten messed up.

But, this is an excellent example of why I feel that Rytis should build his Universal Boinc Portal, rather than bothering David Anderson.

By building the portal, we could see how much it really mattered.
And,
We we could learn this without impacting other development efforts.

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