Garda Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 If for some weird reason you haven't ever noticed, Google's homepage isn't exactly ultra feature packed and complicated (I'm talking about the regular page, not if you have custom ajaxy google stuff). If you take the time to send it through the W3's validator you'll also notice it's not HTML compliant. Now, I'm guessing that google test their front page under every browser known to mankind, but why the hell is something so very simple not HTML compliant. Seriously, how hard can it be. Are there some kind of weird non standard hacks that they have, what gives? Also, is there something wrong with me that I notice these things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Well first thing noted is the fact that they don't declare a doctype in the source. (ex: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">) Additionally, is appears that there sense of html is crap because of the messed up attribute values and even attributes that don't exist or are misworded. Who knows why it's this way. Could be a mistake. They may have just wrote the page one day, saw that it worked and said, "screw it, it works, don't mess with it". Or there could be a legit reason for why it's this way. And no, there's not something wrong with you. I've done the same on other sites. Especially when I'm working the graveyard shift and bored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 The reasion why the home page is so simple is because when google first styarted the developers didnt know html, this might have something to do with why it isnt standard complient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 i <3 google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 It's to save bandwidth. Yes, those few extra bytes of HTML code can add up pretty quickly. Also, their webservers are stripped down and heavily modified to give the best performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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