Re: Validation questions

Wow! Those errors were HIDEOUS!! How could you possibly put up pages with
such grevious problems in them. Clearly these wysiwyg tools SUCK!

Kayla  :-)

At 06:15 AM 3/24/99 +0000, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:

>This validator found 13 errors. They were, in order:
>
>1. Missing a DOCTYPE declaration at the start. In looking at the
>explanation, it seems that the document should declare which version
>of HTML it claims to follow. Mine obviously doesn't do this. There
>may be some issues here in terms of trying to be backwards
>compatible, and seeing what each browser will support. But clearly
>the DOCTYPE attribute is missing.
>
>2. Missing an "alt" tag on an image that I used as kind of a course
>logo. One can argue about how essential it is, but in any case, the
>fault is not with Dreamweaver, really, but with me. Dreamweaver has
>a place to type in the ALT information, and I neglected to do so. I
>suppose one could argue that Dreamweaver should have held a gun to
>my head until I filled this in.
>
>3-13. The other eleven errors all concerned missing ALT information.
>In each case, the images were small, transparent spacer gifs that I
>had used to layout the page the way I wanted it. I did this by using
>a neat feature of Dreamweaver that let me layout the page using
>layers, which I could drag around the screen until I got the look I
>wanted, and then convert the page to an equivalent table for
>backwards compatibility with older browsers. Since most browsers at
>our college are NN3, this is necessary. (Rule number one: Know your
>audience). 

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