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To validate or not to validate?

I recently installed a plug-in for Firefox called Web Developer. It’s a nifty little tool that lets me do all sorts of things, including (but not limited to) playing with stylesheets, view the source in a spiffed-up “view source” window, and validate whatever page happens to be in the browser at that moment. The great thing about the validator is that I can enable/disable a little toolbar at the top of my screen that instantly tells me if the page’s html, css, and accessibility is valid. If something doesn’t validate, you can click on it and it will bring you to the W3 validator page that tells you exactly where you fucked up.

I do have a point here, and I’m getting to it. Please bear with me.

I don’t normally check every site I visit to see if they’re code really does validate, or if they’re just putting the “Valid XHTML” link there for their health. But now, I know within seconds of a page loading whether or not the builder of the site is full of shit. And you’d be pretty surprised at the amount of people who claim they have valid code, but really don’t. I won’t point any fingers or name any names, but at least half of my affiliates should go re-check their coding.

Anyway, I’m almost done with the new layout. I should have it up and fully coded this weekend.

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February 15th, 2008 | Website | Leave a response

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2/16/08 @ 3:13 pm // Merinn said:

I’ve had that tool for quite sometime, and to be quite honest I never really use it except for when my host is teaching me new things about coding. I do see the validator sometimes, and I find it quite funny that some people display “valid HTML” and whatnot when I see about 304732094730284 errors on their validation page. It’s hard sometimes if you have some rotation codes and the people of those rotations don’t code properly. But, I do have a Valid CSS sticker on my site since the CSS is actually valid.

2/16/08 @ 7:51 pm // Nellie said:

I love the Web Developer toolbar, especially if I’m visiting a site that’s fluid. I sit there and resize for hours. Yes, I am a loser.

Can’t wait to see the new layout! :)

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