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Monday, October 29, 2001

Berners-Lee on the MSN Fiasco -- 5:11 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Dan Gilmour interviewed Tim Berners-Lee on the whole fiasco of MSN temporarily blocking non-IE browers. The theory was that the blocked browsers were not compliant with all the current web standards. Here's an interesting retort to that from Berners-Lee:
If the claim for standards-compliant browsers is to be considered true, then it would follow that the msn site itself follows W3C standards for either HTML or XHTML, for CSS (style sheets) and for Web Accessibility. One can test the compliance of the site by using the W3C Validator Service, at this site.

Running the msn.com homepage through the validator on Friday showed the site did not use valid XHTML and did not meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

So if the site doesn't use W3C standards, and browsers that provide more full support for them are blocked out, I would also like to know what the reason is.
Excuse me while I smile quietly to myself. Thanks Slashdot.

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