Re: [MACCAWS] largest compliant site

Geoff Sheridan <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:04:37 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
Message-ID <p05100305b9b104a26779@[212.159.17.184]>
>I'd have though the best way to do it would be to allow anyone to add
>a site (but they would *have* to validate), let anyone flag sites as
>either non-commercial or non-compliant, and then allow a group of
>moderators to do the final editing.

Yes but will there be *any* big sites on it if we're that strict?
I already heard that lycos europe doesn't actually fully validate 
(unable to confirm, I am currently getting an error at w3c, but I 
quote Tom:

>The Lycos sites at <http://www.lycos.co.uk/>, <http://www.lycos.it/> and
><http://www.lycos.fr/> have now moved to CSS-based layouts.
>
>Sadly, none of them fully validate. The original template did, but 
>as Thor said
>they aren't taking a religious attitude to standards.

The list is gunna be short enough on big sites as it is - let's not 
set barriers too high!

Geoff
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