Re: LYNX-DEV chance for publicity

[Michael Ritzert]

> 
> re possible reuters article on or including lynx.
> 
> Does anyone have a FRIEND who works for netscrape or
> equiv div of M$?  Maybe could find out how many
> people, and how much money, is spend solely on
> workarounds for bad html.  M$ being the new IBM,
> there might be HUNDREDS of people doing this one
> job.
> 
> Anyway, if so, sure would make an interesting
> addition to any article, and would "prove" just
> how bad the average html has been written -- even
> by automatic programs.

Why even? At least in the case of converters, it may be really tough
if not in some cases impossible to generate perfect html. Imagine
having to generate html out of postscript partly describing tabular data: 
You'll be glad to get something more or less readable.

> 
> The other day I was talking to someone who had
> done a web page for an organization, and I suggested
> running it through one of those html-checking-sites.
> 
> Man, the resistance I came up against.  OTHER people
> might make nesting errors, etc, in html, but NOT HIM,
> no way!  And I bet everyone on this list has the
> same experience.

I guess You'd win this bet.

> 
> So this possible article will have to be pretty hard-
> hitting, with lots of facts behind it, to convince
> anyone to run their html code through a checker...

??? Do You really believe having a chance to convince the idiots among the 
web authors of anything? I doubt that any of these is even aware of the 
existence of lynx ("Never heared of lynx. We test all our pages with msie 
and ns, so we have perfect html. Your exotic browser is shit.").

> 
> Just my thoughts.
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This thread fits better into comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc, doesn't it?

Michael
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