Re: FN-FORUM: Ping 'web developers' - all those who haven't can you please:

date posted 22nd February 2008 10:49


On 22 Feb 2008, at 11:46, Martin Wheatley wrote:

>
> On 22/02/2008 11:26, Tony Crockford wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2008, at 11:16, Mark Pawelek wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. download Firefox and make that your default web browser.
>> Mine is Safari
>>>
>>> 2. Download and install tools, add-ons, extensions: 'HTML
>>> Validator',
>>> Firebug, 'Total Validator', 'Web Developer', 'DOM Inspector',
>>> ySlow. These
>>> are all available from the same place:
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:4
>>> This is a one-off tax on your time but should give you endless
>>> dividends in
>>> terms of time saved and respect gained (for writing valid html)
>> And I can still write valid html
>
> I ran your site through htmlvalidator, there's a few errors and
> warnings ;)

I didn't say my site was valid...

;)

However, it is valid, to web standards - no errors.

your validator throws up a lot of warnings.

>
>
> http://www.spodnet.net/misc/reports/batchreport.html
>
> (I'm not sure why it thought the js file was css though, possibly a
> bug in html validator or maybe a problem with your site making it
> think it's css).

bug in the validator.


>
> I do find htmlvalidator to be picky at times, but it's well worth
> the money and effort in making sites come up with 0 errors and 0
> warnings where possible especially with accessibility checking
> turned on (I know it's not always the case).

some of those warnings are obscure at best...

;)