Thanks to all who responded to my complaint about http://www.joblist.com.au, specially to Fergus Wilde who made me aware of the html validator; what a great and useful tool this is. Also many thanks to Joe Morris, who made me check the settings of konqueror. When I dis-enable Plugins, the site becomes viewable. I usually leave javascript on but turn Java itself off. The part where joblist loops is the netscape plugin which gets installed when one installs netscape. This plugin appears to be used by Konqueror as well. Based on the analysis results of the html validator, joblist is obviously not HTML compliant. This leads me to a few general questions. Is there not an RFC that governs the rules of HTML and is that RFC not to be considered as a sort of a standard one would normally adhere to? What is the use of providing contents via plugins if the plugin has to be turned off to view the site? Why should I have to re-configure browser settings to view one site and then have to re-configure it again fto view another one? Again, thanks to all that responded. The jobhunt is seriously on now. Ta Peter Sutter On Monday 25 February 2002 22:05, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi all, well this is the result of running the complainant's page (http://www.joblist.com.au) past the html validator (great tool) supplied by the world wide web consortium at http://validator.w3.org/:
"[W3C] HTML Validation Service Results URI: Last Modified: Thu Sep 6 02:09:10 2001 Server: Netscape-FastTrack/2.0a Content Length: 1448 Detected Character Encoding: iso Select Character Encoding: Options: Show Source Outline Parse Tree ...no attributes
Warnings
* Warning: Character Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header («iso») is different from the one specified in the META element («iso-8859-1»). I will use «iso» for this validation.
Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character encoding yet, or you have specified a non-existent character encoding (often a misspelling).
The detected character encoding was "iso".
The error was "".
If you believe the character encoding to be valid you can submit a request for that character encoding (see the feedback page for details) and we will look into supporting it in the future."
They must have some kind of equal ops policy, and certainly should have an access policy for visually impaired / otherwise disabled readers. These pages must breach it. I'd suggest all interested Aussies bombard the relevant government departments so that they produce valid html and preferably so they rate with Bobby as well:
http://www.cast.org/Bobby/AboutBobby313.cfm
This page makes it clear that: "Many people with disabilities use special Web browsers, such as one that reads text out loud using a speech synthesizer for blind users."
Best to all Fergus