Re: W3C HTML Validator

Sue,
Couldn't agree more.  Although I wonder if this is always intentional.
Perhaps the page validated when first written, then was modified but not run
through the validator again. This can happen with new ideas/updates, etc.
The easiest way to validate a page is to use strict HTML 4.0 for the
structural format and a style sheet for all the gee-whiz stuff.  [Yes, I
really do mean CSS1 and CSS2  ;-)  ]  CSS is not so hard to learn.  There
are several web sites with excellent tutorials and many good reference
books.

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css.html
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/Style_Sheets
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/stylesheets/?tw=frontdoor

Using strict HTML 4.0 also makes your page more accessible to emerging
technology such as speech activated car computers and telephone-to-computer
communications (see http://www.sciam.com/1998/1298issue/1298cyber.html).  In
addition, the clear structural mark-up makes your web page more accessible
to the over 750,000,000 (that's 750 million) persons world-wide who have
disabilities, and of whom approximately 43 million of them are Americans.
The "Bobby" validator (see http://www.cast.org/bobby/) will help with this
as well as drive you crazy.

Edna
ednafrench(at)home.com

I doubt sometimes whether
a quiet & unmitigated life
would have suited me--yet I
sometimes long for it.
                   **Byron

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