Re: [ARTICLE] Introducing the Ada programming language

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
> CodeMage wrote:
>>If you are interested ....
>>http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/goto.php?url=IntroducingAda
> 
> Forward this to the webmaster rather than the author.
> 
> On Netscape 4.79, the nav sidebar sits on top of the article text.
> 
> On Internet Explorer 6.0, the window is solid white--no text.

It looks pretty nice on my Mozilla-Win2k setup.

Rather than insist that things look great on my setup, I generally run 
pages with odd-looking output through the HTML validator. If there is an 
HTML error, I complain about the error(s) (along with the weirdness I 
see in my setup). If there isn't a error, then (aside from possible 
pathalogical style settings) I can assume the problem is with my browser.


In this case, a run with 
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crystalcode.com%2Fcodemage%2FMainMenu%2FCoding%2FAda%2FIntroducingAda.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline 
shows that this page is indeed invalid HTML. It doesn't even have a 
doctype tag, so the validator can't even begin to process it. If I guess 
that the author was shooting for HTML 4.01 transitional (generally the 
wisest choice for folk who don't even know about doctype tags), I get 
150 errors.

So this page does indeed appear to have big problems, and I would not be 
at all suprised to find that it renders quite differently on different 
brower/OS combos (depending on each brower's extension support and error 
recovery mechanisims, and perhaps lunar cycle).