[CLUE-Tech] Re: Browser Protest Day

[Keith Hellman]

Google just announced a contest (with competitive cash prizes!) to see who
could come up with the most novel idea for new ways to grep their meta
data and page caches.

http://www.google.com/programming-contest/

This sounds like it could be one of them.  I doubt that google would
actually NOT provide links to non-complient sites, but they could let
users specify (as search engine qualifiers) to ONLY provide sites with
complient HTML/CSS/JS/blah blah blah.

Google could then send monthly reports to non-complient site admins (if
the Email address is in the page of course), telling them:  "hey bozo, you
missed out on 432,874 hits this month because your website is
non-compliant, and over 20% of our users insist on seeing only compliant
sites."

Better yet, to hell with the CIO - send it too the CEO/CFO of the company;
let THEM go tell the appropriate people to either get website in line or
clean out their desks.






--- Steve Fry <clue at ir3w.com> wrote:
> > > I've fired off the first shot here:
> > >   http://www.directfit.com/UnsupportedClientType.ASP
> 
> I tried visiting their site under a wide variety of browsers - they're
> strict.  [I have all sorts of browsers but no versions of IE beyond IE4
> - I refuse!]  I asked them what their company did.
> 
> BUT, this got me thinking.  Maybe we're going about this all wrong. 
> Think of how many thousands of sites we'd have to visit to ask about
> compatibility.  WHAT IF ... we instead got Google and the other Search
> Engines to do this for us?  [C'mon - they're big OSS guys, aren't
> they?]  They could modify their spiders such that it could check pages
> for compatibility for all browsers.  No compatibility = no listing.  
> 
> [I do a manual version of this myself over at http://www.peaktopeak.net/
> - whenever someone submits a link - I - yes - me - manually - check out
> the site.  If I can't see the page in Nutscrape 4.7, I write a nice note
> and about 95% of the time the Webmaster had no idea he/she had any
> problems.  They usually fix and resubmit their site within a few days.]
> 
> Too much to ask (of Google and the other search engines)?  Thoughts?  
> 
> Steve
> 
> PS:  Plan B - with all of the tallent on this list, maybe we could
> create our own (google-like) search engine that only lists sites
> compatible to all browsers?  We could call it, get-a-clue!  [Any venture
> capitalists out there like this idea?]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > RE: buggy software
> > From: "Karma Parlett" <Karma at iaccess.com>
> > To: "Charlie Oriez" <coriez at oriez.org>
> > 
> > No we don't have plans to use other platforms.  Sorry.
> > 
> > Karma Parlett
> > kparlett at iaccess.com
> 
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Keith E. Hellman
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