And I Thought I Knew HTML…

Well, according to http://www.w3c.org, I know nothing of the term “HTML”. Their validator blew up everything (Shey, thanks for this information). So I put up my home page there to validate…19 errors!

Then again here are some stats about other websites:
Google: 47 errors. (Redirects to co.jp for some reason)
MSN: 0 errors.
Sun: 8 errors.
Cisco: 186 errors.
Ebay: 243 errors.
Microsoft: 0 errors.
Amazon: FAILED.
Adobe: 0 errors.

Does that mean that W3 Consortium is whack? Microsoft and Adobe seem to be on top of their game on the validation.

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2 thoughts on “And I Thought I Knew HTML…

  1. The usual, basic problems are manifesting themselves:

    1) No ALT tags on images. This is about 2/3’s of Ebay’s errors.
    2) Attribute values are not in quotes.
    3) Special characters such as ampersands are not encoded with their escape sequences but rather with their UTF-8 codes. This was the cause of all of Sun’s validation errors and most of Google’s and Cisco’s.
    4) Attribute names are starting with numbers on Google’s page. That’s new to me – I’ve never seen that befo
    5) Use of deprecated tags such as “[wbr]”

    -Paul

  2. Corrigenda and Addenda:

    4) Attribute names are starting with numbers on Google’s page. That’s new to me – I’ve never seen that one before. Weird.
    5) Use of deprecated tags such as “[wbr]”
    6) On Ebay’s site, table rows and cells that were never opened are closed.

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