RE: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 11:11

The answer to this question is not if YOU are for validation necessarily,
it's more are your clients for validation or not, the fact is more a more
clients are asking for W3C validated sites, heard it is a good thing and so
want it.

These days I just bang "W3C valid code" on all quotes even though I know in
most cases the client has no idea what it actually means and that in most
cases the site won't be W3C compliant.

Problem is 90% of my sites are CMS driven and so validating code on user
generated content is more or less impossible so I end up explaining to the
customer that the CMS template is W3C compliant but their content isn't and
it is not possible to have a W3C valid site if they also want a WYSIWYG CMS
editor. It's also a good way to up sell my content mark-up services. :)

Regards
Sam Morgan
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> On 24 Sep 2007, at 11:16, Paul Cooper wrote:
>
> >
> > On 23 Sep 2007 13:06:39 -0000, Tony Crockford
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >
> >> On 21 Sep 2007, at 13:22, Paul Cooper wrote:
> >>> Amazon comes up with over 1000 errors. Even Google has 33
> >>> errors.
> >>
> >> not sure of the point you're trying to make?
> >>
> > The point I'm making is that very few (I couldn't actually find any)
> > well know brands have web sites that validate. Therefore I'm
> assuming
> > it's not something to worry about.
>
> I disagree.
>
> Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser, but it doesn't
> adhere to standards.
>
> saying it's okay not to validate just because lots of big sites don't
> is not a forward thinking standards advocating web professional way
> of thinking.
>
> ;o)
>
> you're either for standards or not. if you are *for* then you
> validate your code against those standards.