Mark Hansen wrote:
On 12/24/2009 9:35 AM, Danny Kile wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
JeffM wrote:
Danny Kile wrote:
I use a program called Local Website Archive.
http://www.aignes.com/lwa.htm
I find it fascinating that the website for a company in that business
doesn't pass muster:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.aignes.com/lwa.htm
5 Errors
Compare:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modified.html
Who says that Company Web Designers (whether in house or paid) pay one
whit attention about W3C specifications.
Granted the ones the are here have had it hammered in their head. I'd be
very surprised if MS, Adobe, Intuit if you were check theirs would be. 5
error is not a heck of a lot.
On my own site I've spent literally months (not every day and not every
minute) re working mine to be W#C compliant to at least XML (XHTML) 1.0.
Transitional spec. And I still not sure I've go everything.
I checked Mocrosoft.com, cnn.com, tvguide.com, weather.com, adobe.com
and uweather.com thet all had hundreds of errors. All their site seem to
work just fine, so much for validator. I did mozilla.org and it was the
only site that passed.
Danny
So much for validator?
The validator checks to see if the code that makes up the HTML/CSS is
correct. If it's not correct, it generates a validation warning/error.
If it's not correct, it's not correct. There are no two way about this.
The fact that a web site appears to function correctly doesn't mean the
HTML/CSS has no problems. Some problems can be big and some can be small.
Some will affect only certain browsers, some will affect only certain parts
of the application, etc.
Are you really saying that if the site appears to work to your standards
even with validation errors, that the validator has no value?
The validator is good for people that know about and want to check to
see how well they have written their code. So that they know it will
work with *Any* Browser. However, There are many don't even know about
W3C let a lone about the validator. Many professionals.
For example Adobe's Forums have moved from WebX to Jive ClearSpace. and
talk about a train wreck. there is no way that is even remotely
validates with the validator.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net http://www.vpea.org
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