Re: W3C HTML validator

It could go either way with those sites.  In one case, perhaps they haven't
checked the validation since W3C updated its compliance requirements.  If
that's the case, a simply letter to the webmaster of the site could be
rather effective, and perhaps thankful, as long as the wordings in the email
are gentle in nature.

However, I do know that there are those that take their pages, simply
because they don't have any visible errors in them, and plop the same logo
on without even checking, or if they can't find a way to fix it, and think
no one will check.  Well, people do check, and in my belief, it's simple bad
taste to put the verification logo on one's pages to show they have a site
that meets with W3C standards.  My site works for everyone that has looked
at it so far, and it's so very far from meeting with the compliance, though
I'm currently working on it.  Sometimes it can't be done without changing
the page completely, and if that's the case, perhaps those that use it as
the 'eye candy' as someone put in an earlier post because they could be too
lazy to change the site enough to meet with the standards.

Simply my thoughts upon this matter.

Richard Baerwalde
Web Developer
BaerComp technologies
http://baercomp.hypermart.net/
rbaerwal(at)tampabay.rr.com

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