My web page seems to work fine but I showed it to an expert and he said that the guy who built it included lots of HTML "validation errors". What does it mean and why is it IMPORTANT?
Seems to run fine.
2006-08-31 03:00:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Validation errors does not mean that it is not fine. W3 Consortium has specified a set of rules about how the HTML page should designed. Validating the HTML means sticking to those rules. By validating you will make sure that all the browsers will display the HTML content in more or less the same way ( even the browsers that you haven't tested your HTML pages on) since all browsers will keep the specification of W3C in mind while designing the browsers. It is important to validate so that you will not have to change it when new browsers are made.
2006-08-31 03:30:16 · answer #1 · answered by Ravi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like there's a way to write proper English, there's a way to write 'proper HTML'. In the beginning there was only the Mosaic web browser, but now there's also Netscape, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer and many others. For all this to work the HTML language and related technologies must meet a few standards. The World Wide Web Consortium is the entity that coordinates these standards. You can easily validate your web pages using their HTLM validator tool located at http://validator.w3.org/
It provides you with valuable information about what's wrong and even how to get errors fixed.
Unfortunatelly, even some web design professionals don't have a clue about what the W3C is. If the guy who built your web pages doesn't know about it, make sure you let him know about http://www.w3c.org/
2006-08-31 03:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Minor errors that don't show up when you view your own page might cause a page to display improperly, or not at all on another platform. Validation is easy to find for free on the internet and is well worth the effort so you have a nice looking page on any computer.
2006-08-31 03:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by Michael 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Validating HTML code is making sure the code is correct. It might work for you fine, but somebody else might see it completely differently, even not at all. Use a validation tool to check for errors, then fix them.
2006-08-31 03:04:12 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Must be something in the code that occupies space. You know, as in they don't do anything?
Maybe there's a Web Page Error checker out there, or something.
2006-08-31 03:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by zack_falcon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋