Tim Bray says corporate sites’ HTML is borked

November 27, 2005 By

Tim Bray says Microsoft’s developer resource sites’ HTML isn’t validating. I’ll see what we can do about that (he also admits Sun’s and IBM’s don’t validate either).

While I’m talking about Tim, Sam Ruby told me I was subscribed to Tim’s partial text feed. So I went over to his blog and tried to find his feeds. I can’t find them anywhere. I’m probably just blind. I finally found his feeds by doing a view source on his HTML. What horrible usability! Tim, can you just put an orange XML icon on your blog? Why are you trying to hide your feeds?

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  • Anthony Starks

    Safari nails this issue — a blue RSS icon in the address bar, hit button, subscribe in the RSS reader

  • Anthony Starks

    Safari nails this issue — a blue RSS icon in the address bar, hit button, subscribe in the RSS reader

  • http://www.bernzilla.com/ Bernie Zimmermann

    “Robert: I still use IE. Shoot me.”

    In that case, you deserve the price you are paying to subscribe to feeds. ;)

    Get Firefox.

  • http://www.bernzilla.com/ Bernie Zimmermann

    “Robert: I still use IE. Shoot me.”

    In that case, you deserve the price you are paying to subscribe to feeds. ;)

    Get Firefox.

  • http://www.bernzilla.com/ Bernie Zimmermann

    “Robert: I still use IE. Shoot me.”

    In that case, you deserve the price you are paying to subscribe to feeds. ;)

    Get Firefox.

  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Yeah Robert…just because you insist on using a browser that’s years behind doesn’t mean anything.

    That’s like insisting on driving a Model T, then saying that any car without a crank starter is broken.

  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Yeah Robert…just because you insist on using a browser that’s years behind doesn’t mean anything.

    That’s like insisting on driving a Model T, then saying that any car without a crank starter is broken.

  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Yeah Robert…just because you insist on using a browser that’s years behind doesn’t mean anything.

    That’s like insisting on driving a Model T, then saying that any car without a crank starter is broken.

  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Yeah Robert…just because you insist on using a browser that’s years behind doesn’t mean anything.

    That’s like insisting on driving a Model T, then saying that any car without a crank starter is broken.

  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Yeah Robert…just because you insist on using a browser that’s years behind doesn’t mean anything.

    That’s like insisting on driving a Model T, then saying that any car without a crank starter is broken.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Rijk: you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case. Which is why I still use IE so that I can experience the Web in the way most people experience it.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Rijk: you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case. Which is why I still use IE so that I can experience the Web in the way most people experience it.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Rijk: you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case. Which is why I still use IE so that I can experience the Web in the way most people experience it.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Rijk: you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case. Which is why I still use IE so that I can experience the Web in the way most people experience it.

  • http://rogben.wordpress.com/ rogben

    Robert: “you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case.”

    I suspect that the people who won’t move are also the folks who won’t use RSS. They’re just not looking to improve their experiences.

    With that said, your particular problem would be solved by a switch to an aggregator that automatically installs an autodiscovery tool into IE. With Newzcrawler, you can right-click a page in IE and click “subscribe”… no hunting for XML icons or viewing source required.

  • http://rogben.wordpress.com/ rogben

    Robert: “you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case.”

    I suspect that the people who won’t move are also the folks who won’t use RSS. They’re just not looking to improve their experiences.

    With that said, your particular problem would be solved by a switch to an aggregator that automatically installs an autodiscovery tool into IE. With Newzcrawler, you can right-click a page in IE and click “subscribe”… no hunting for XML icons or viewing source required.

  • http://rogben.wordpress.com/ rogben

    Robert: “you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case.”

    I suspect that the people who won’t move are also the folks who won’t use RSS. They’re just not looking to improve their experiences.

    With that said, your particular problem would be solved by a switch to an aggregator that automatically installs an autodiscovery tool into IE. With Newzcrawler, you can right-click a page in IE and click “subscribe”… no hunting for XML icons or viewing source required.

  • http://rogben.wordpress.com/ rogben

    Robert: “you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case.”

    I suspect that the people who won’t move are also the folks who won’t use RSS. They’re just not looking to improve their experiences.

    With that said, your particular problem would be solved by a switch to an aggregator that automatically installs an autodiscovery tool into IE. With Newzcrawler, you can right-click a page in IE and click “subscribe”… no hunting for XML icons or viewing source required.

  • http://rogben.wordpress.com/ rogben

    Robert: “you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case.”

    I suspect that the people who won’t move are also the folks who won’t use RSS. They’re just not looking to improve their experiences.

    With that said, your particular problem would be solved by a switch to an aggregator that automatically installs an autodiscovery tool into IE. With Newzcrawler, you can right-click a page in IE and click “subscribe”… no hunting for XML icons or viewing source required.

  • http://rogben.wordpress.com/ rogben

    Robert: “you assume most people will move soon. In my experience that totally is NOT the case.”

    I suspect that the people who won’t move are also the folks who won’t use RSS. They’re just not looking to improve their experiences.

    With that said, your particular problem would be solved by a switch to an aggregator that automatically installs an autodiscovery tool into IE. With Newzcrawler, you can right-click a page in IE and click “subscribe”… no hunting for XML icons or viewing source required.

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