W3C Validation flaws
August 13th, 2007
W3C XHTML is a great idea - making everything work on everyones Browser, however when trying to get complicated homepages to validate properly - it can be a pain. You enter your homepage - say www.rankrace.com But w3C markup doesnt allow some things that make older browsers function properly - e.g. pre css terms used to make old browsers show the website properly!
Examples: <Table background=”an_image.jpg”>
This wouldnt be allowed under W3C Markup - but if you just use the css (Background-Image) then older versions on Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape (NS) would not show the background image.
Simarlarly annoying about W3C is the fact you cannot spread a form over a table - so if you dont have all your form items within the same <td> then w3c crys about it!!!!!
W3C xhtml markup validator is realised as a useful tool for SEO’ and general webmasters/designers. But if used as the end-all bee’s knees of markup validation then you may be blocking out 1/3 of the hits to your site - waste all that difficultly generated traffic so easily?????? W3C = great in moderation but don’t waste all your organic and referal generated traffic living up to its godly standards.
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