268671 - Firefox default homepage is not valid HTML

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Marketing :: General, task)

Description

[u49640]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

since Mozilla is evangilising valid (x)HTML the default Firefox startpage should
be valid HTML. but unfortunatly it isnt (like all google pages)
see http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.google.at/firefox

looking at the validation result it shouldnt take much to make this page valid HTML

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




btw: it absolutly rocks that you got google to host the Firefox start page

Comment 1

[Steffen Wilberg]

-> Marketing.

Google could even save some bandwidth by using a cleaner markup (e.g. css
instead of tables for layout) on this page. Who cares how Netscape 4 displays it?

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

If someone can assure me Google is going to use it I could make exactly the same
layout using semantic HTML. (It might not be IE compatible, but it is the
Firefox Start Page after all.)

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

I don't think you will get a guarantee that Google will use it.

On the contrary, it's probably necessary to draft at least a proof-of-concept
page, showing the benefits, like a huge page size reduction, before they
consider to change their code.

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 294080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Should this be Tech Evangelism?

Comment 6

[u597032]

Is this bug still relevant or can it be closed by now?

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

That page (google.com/firefox) doesn‘t exist anymore, it just redirects to google.com.
Closing this 18 year old bug as WFM therefore.