Comments on: Want a job? Tell me what’s wrong with this html?

By: Peter Wexler

Peter Wexler — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:25:07 +0000

It’s not a question of what’s wrong. It’s a question of what would be the right form. Here is the correct way to present the data in question:

H1 {
font-size: extra-large;
color:red;
}
li {
color: white;
}
.greenbox {
background-color:#CCFF66;
}

Untitled Document

Hello World

I’m not fat I’m big boned

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

Of course I want some cheesy poofs

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

By: Skye Aspden

Skye Aspden — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:29:14 +0000

Theres no Meta information ;-)

SEO signing out

Skye

By: arbitraryuser

arbitraryuser — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:47:08 +0000

ps. Various people have submitted answers that were all pretty good. I’ll be putting together a new post shortly to discuss the answers and get into some nice nitty gritty xhtml best practice debates.

By: Izak Burger

Izak Burger — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:24:51 +0000

Lemme see….

1. No DOCTYPE
2. No
3. No …
4. therefore also no , which is mandatory…
5. and should be inside
6. No tag
7. ‘s are not inside or
8. style tag has no type attribute
9. Using H1 as an id? Sounds like a bad idea to me.
10. CSS defines unused styling for id=H1
11. id=’greenBox has missing quote. Besides, afaik you use double quotes for attributes?
12. tag matched by tag, afaik most XML parsers do not like that.

These just off the top of my head. Didn’t use a validator.

By: Neil Garb

Neil Garb — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:34:39 +0000

Have you had a look at brainbench?

http://www.brainbench.com

With brainbench you don’t have to sit and twiddle your thumbs while the potential(-less) canditate embarasses themselves. Just give them a PC, tell them to do the test – if they fail they can just show themselves out.

… or you can install one of those trapdoors that opens when you press a button under your desk.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:30:46 +0000

what about this:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arbitraryuser.com%2Fstuff%2Fkiefxhtml%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Strict
I don’t think the validator works that well… but I could cheat my way through the test with a little x/html knowledge and the validator

By: arbitraryuser

arbitraryuser — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:13:32 +0000

I’m keeping that a “secret” for now… got some potentials coming in over the next few days. Either way, it doesn’t matter — you’d hit it.

By: Neil Garb

Neil Garb — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:09:22 +0000

Where’s the PHP test?

By: arbitraryuser

arbitraryuser — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:06:24 +0000

No, that’s not cheating… in fact you get a point just for suggesting it. However, it only initially spots 7 things wrong. Some of the issues aren’t technically “wrong”, they’re just bad habits that would make someone with a little experience cringe.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:28:00 +0000

Is doing this cheating? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arbitraryuser.com%2Fstuff%2Fkiefxhtml%2F