2007-05-15

AOL CSS Parser

Posted in Practical at 20:36:05 by streetprogramming

A little validation goes a long way …

A client called to mention that their site looked like it had been up all night snorting cocaine with our President when viewed in AOL. After complaining a good deal about AOL and who uses that crap anymore and so forth I decided to check it out. As it turns out AOL does seem to use Internet Explorer as a COM component. Unfortunately it does not appear to use IE’s CSS parser.

After more time than I’m willing to admit to it was pointed out that the page did not appear to be using all the CSS files specified. After validating the CSS files it turned out that there was a single character at the end of the file which ruined the entire site: *.