Foolish Web Development
I like the Foolish advice on offer at the Motley Fool website so when their latest email proclaimed of a new home page I just had to go peak under the hood.
How foolish! An incorrectly declared DOCTYPE for starters: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">. Hmmm. It gets worse with improperly closed tags, unescaped ampersands, proprietary tags and a real mish-mash of CSS and table-based layout. My eyes started bleeding halfway through so this isn’t an exhaustive list.
I suspect that, as the incorrect DOCTYPE hints at, this is a transitional move of old content to a new look but Fools, please use a development box and give us the new look when you’re properly ready. Oh, and don’t forget the investors with accessibility issues either. Ta.
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