Re: CFL Facts

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:26:04 +0000 (UTC), don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Don Klipstein) wrote:

In <rqfg63594k7j8os4k10sv2vvmhsdvnl1nc@xxxxxxx>, Victor Roberts wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:06:25 +0100, Mike <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:22:05 -0400, Victor Roberts
<xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You don't state your relationship with this site, but it
reports "errors" such as missing close and open tags, when
such errors do not exist in the source.

He doesn't need to state any relationship with the site. www.w3.org
IS the primary reference for html and css.

If your code fails their validators then it IS bad code and errors DO
exist......but that hasn't stopped millions of crap, badly coded,
overbloated websites being produced by uninformed, badly trained,
overpaid and over hyped so called web designers for the past decade or
so. But you may not give a rats ass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium

I do appreciate your kind words, but the fact remains that
the site in question claims that a number of closing tags
are missing when they are clearly there in the page source.
Other "errors" may also not exist, but I have checked only
the most obvious ones for now.

Why should I trust a site that makes such obvious errors
itself?

I just tried it on my homepage.

I find that it reports errors in poor ways, and some reported errors
were caused by prior errors.

Turns out that three missing </A> tags generated about a dozen error
messages, none of which were reporting of missing </A> tags. Most said
that subsequent <A> tags were not permitted by the doctype.

I fixed three actual errors, and the checker then had the only reported
error being a lack of doctype statement.

Possibly the error messages were generated by unrelated errors, and the
number of errors could be less than the number of error messages.

I have passed the info on to my web site designer (my son)
but still believe that if w3.org wants to hold itself up as
the final arbitrator of well-designed web sites it should
not make errors itself.

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