Hot to Clean up the Web: Google Reads only Standard Compliant Pages and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2

MS Released Internet Explorer (IE) 7 Beta 2 to the public this week, and stated that they did not implement many standards into the browser because if they did then so many web pages would break.

 

Well, Microsoft should stop saying they are a technology company then and let someone else lead.

 

One reason so much bad code is out there is that the browsers have been written to "keep on goin'" -- to render a page no matter what and guess what should happen when it finds invalid code.

Thus all our browsers mask the coding problems in pages. This has been true since day 1.

MS, and the other browser makers could implement a toggle switch in the browser configuration that a user could set as to what version they wanted to render to. HTML 2, 3, 4, XML. Now set at XML, a single bad character on a page stops everything and blocks a page from ever being rendered (per specs!).

 

Now since Microsoft is unwilling to build into the IE engine valid standards, they should let a true web leader like Google come out and state that only complete valid HTML pages would be crawled and placed in their index - and you'd see how fast all the web page designers and companies who had written to IE only - some truly invalid code - would be cleaned up to be valid HTML and the IE 7 browser "features" that MS left in IE7 for designers would be of no consequence at all!