arstechnica.com— Opera has developed a new indexing system that analyzes the structure of web content and it found that only 4.13 percent of the 3.5 million pages indexed by the system actually pass the W3C's validator.
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What is the real purpose of the standards? I don't think they are meant to put difficult constraints on developers, but to provide a reasonable expectation for how a browser should render a page. The only use for a compliant site is that it is guaranteed to look the same in any browser that renders according to the standards.The truth of the matter is that all of the browsers out there don't display according to standards and in some cases the standards are incomplete. If you get close you can still be pretty confident that your stuff will display correctly, just not absolutely certain. Its not like you are breaking the internet.
Another Definition of Standard (and most likely the way the word is used in this situation):something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.The authority in this case would be W3C.
any designer and markup programmer worth their salt will know that validation doesn't automatically = good job. quite often the IE6 hacks make validation fail, so the true litmus test is to see if it works in all browsers.
bwisheyOct 16, 2008
Until IE becomes retroactively compliant, we're stuck....So we're stuck for a long long time if not forever.
mtheoryxOct 16, 2008
Banger? Banger? Damn near wrecked 'er!Digg me down.
dist0rtedwaveOct 16, 2008
What is the real purpose of the standards? I don't think they are meant to put difficult constraints on developers, but to provide a reasonable expectation for how a browser should render a page. The only use for a compliant site is that it is guaranteed to look the same in any browser that renders according to the standards.The truth of the matter is that all of the browsers out there don't display according to standards and in some cases the standards are incomplete. If you get close you can still be pretty confident that your stuff will display correctly, just not absolutely certain. Its not like you are breaking the internet.
sinnetOct 16, 2008
Another Definition of Standard (and most likely the way the word is used in this situation):something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.The authority in this case would be W3C.
Closed AccountOct 16, 2008
Yay my post disappeared after I submitted it and didn't show when I refreshed the page. So I submitted it again.
socialrebelOct 16, 2008
any designer and markup programmer worth their salt will know that validation doesn't automatically = good job. quite often the IE6 hacks make validation fail, so the true litmus test is to see if it works in all browsers.
tecuervoOct 18, 2008
It is sad to say that I believe this makes the case that the standards are... well... not so standard.