[Gllug] Bad websites

[David Pashley]

Simon Stewart said, and I quote:
> On Friday, Feb 21, 2003, at 01:28 Europe/London, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 
> >Flames to customer.care at marks-and-spencer.com.
> 
> It looks to me like their error page has an error itself: the source 
> has the interesting line:
> 
> <tlc><TLIF><TLCOND><TLVAR NAME=global:server.CMEnvironment/> == 
> 'Live'</TLCOND></tlc>
> 
> which isn't correct xhtml (as the html namespace suggests at the head 
> of the page) and doesn't even fall under correct xml because a) the 
> value of tlvar's "name" attribute isn't in quote marks and b) the 
> "tlif" tag is never explicitly closed.

And IIRC xml tags and attributes should be lowercase.

> 
> A 10 second proof of the page would have shown this error because the 
> text "== 'Live'" appears as the first viewable piece of text on the 
> page. Very sloppy. Will complain.
> 
> Simon
> 
> 

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