Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42810
http://www.redhat.com/ is broken.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:29 EDT
Description of Problem: The main Red Hat web page is broken - it contains invalid HTML. This has apparently actually caused Netscape on RH6.2/Alpha to dump core. That's a little excessive editorial comment, and is a separate bug - but the broken HTML is a bug too. Red Hat presumably doesn't want to give to the public the impression of being either careless or clueless about such standards? Personally, I'd like to see an Apache mod_validate which refuses to serve such broken pages. :) How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.http://validator.w3.or/validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redhat.com%2F&doctype=Inline 2. 3. Actual Results: "Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional." Expected Results: "Congratulations, this document validates as HTML 4.0 Transitional!" Additional Information:
To be clear, this was neither a bug nor was the redhat.com homepage ever broken. It has been built traditionally to take advantage of certain browser proprietary bugs (like most other commercial and open source oriented web sites). The page has always been built to function and display properly in clients used by a vast majority of the site's daily visitors. In cases where, the page did not render as planned, every effort was made to assure that the information contained within the page was still readable. To be honest, HTML validation was never a real concern because most browsers (including those with an open source flavor) did a poor job of supporting the kind of standards that allowed designers to build pages that were both interoperable and and pleasing to the eye. Nevertheless, browsers are now becoming more competent and compatible with standards. The redhat.com homepage now validates and is presumably no longer broken. Please close this "bug."
What's the status of this? Would like to close it out if we can.
Yes, you can close this.