Re: Validator

by "Mike O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>

Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:12:21 -0400
To:	"Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>, <Kassianna(at)WiccanWeb.Net>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	mindspring
	todo: View Thread, Original

Pardon me . . . 

I think there is a little confusion here.

There is nothing BUT a validator that will tell you whether your page will
display properly in all browsers.

*ALL* the current browser manufacturers write their code to comply with W3
standards - first. The difference is that (at least) the big two ADD to
that basic standard to allow developers to add ADDITIONAL tags and
attributes that add functions or features to a page that "only" the browser
specific code will work in.

Bottom line:

Write to the W3 standards and validate your pages.

Result: *EVERYONE* *EVERYWHERE* _will_ be able to see your pages as designed.

Now . . . . Notice please that CSS is currently "valadatable" but . . . 

1) It is not HTML

2) Because it *is not* HTML, browser support is (currently) horrible. Now
*I* wish that wasn't so, CSS is very cool stuff, but the fact is support
for more than text features is terrible - even in 5.X browser versions.

Bottom line (again), If you _depend_ on CSS for any of your sites
functionality, and you are publishing "publicly", you are most likely
making a substantial mistake that will come back to bite you right in the
bank account. 

HTH,
Fuzzy

At 09:26 AM 7/25/00 -0500, Paul Wilson wrote:
>I am not sure you really need a validator.  That is going to tell you if the
>code is correct or not.... not whether it works in different browsers which
>is another thing altogether.  The W3C can publish all the standards it wants
>to, but to date there has been only spotty implimentation in the various
>browsers.
>
>Probably the easiest way to get into CSS is with TopStyle which is found at
>http://www.bradsoft.com
>
>
>> Wondering if anyone knows of a good validation program (very cheap!) that
>> will help me with these styles that I'm working on.  I keep getting it
>> right in IE and then it is haywire in Netscape, and I don't know this type
>> of coding well enough yet to catch what is going wrong.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kass
>>
>>
>

HTML: hwg-basics mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA