<OT> Maybe

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/21/2002 6:45 AM, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002 08:50:23 +0200 begin  Roger Oberholtzer
> <roger at opq.se> spewed forth:
> 
> 
>> Will there be a section on this in the book?
> 
> 
> On what? CSS? Borken browsers? ???
> 
<snip>

I sent in an e-mail to the kde-devel list, echoing your claim of a "borken browser", here's the first response it received:

> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 13:54, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>> Konqueror will not render http://linuxbooks.pananix.com/ properly, 
>> at least for me. It sems to load the page OK, but I cannot scroll 
>> it. The author of the page claims it's a "borken browser". It 
>> renders fine with Mozilla, linux and Windows. Should this be 
>> submitted as a bug to bugs.kde.org? Thanks,
> 
> 
> I can't say anything about if something should be fixed in konquerer,
>  but I've a hint for this author: Before calling Konqueror `broken', 
> he should eventually run his HTML and CSS code through some 
> validators.
> 
> Broken CSS: 
> http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator/?uri=http%3A//linuxbooks-
> .pananix.com/basic/toc.html
> 
> Broken HTML: 
> http://validator.w3.org/check/?uri=http%3A//linuxbooks.pananix.com/ba-
> sic/toc.html
> 
> I just don't like this 'my code is broken but your tool should work 
> anyway with my code'-attitude.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> 

While I tend to agree that this page should render fine regardless of the minor problems listed by these validators, it is difficult to claim that someting is "borken" because it won't render something that is, um, borken.

Regards, 
Tim