While debugging some apps today, hence, waiting for about 30 minutes to let one of my workstations execute such apps, I decided to check Microsoft’s homepage, and then I jumped into the code… I noticed that they had the following line of code:

The lack of this infamous line, made the homepage fail the W3C.org validation tool for the longest time… I don’t remember that they had ever achieved this tiny milestone!

The line was there, I knew it was a longshot… then I tried to validate the URL…

To my surprise, it worked!!!

I don’t know for how long has this been like that, and after them releasing a IE 7 Beta available only to MSDN members, I had lost a lot of trust on these guys. A lot of web developers/designers feel the same way, I believe.

However, knowing how hard it is to achieve the W3C validation, I must admit that they had to work very hard to get rid of their so-many proprietary HTML tags.

Hats off… err… wait… nevermind… If you dig into any other page within their website, you can tell that the layout changes, ergo, flunks the validation. =)

ay ay ay…

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