aPaddedCell Article: Web Standards > Validation

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aPaddedCell wrote: Many programmers seem to think that complying with web standards means passing the validator. Validation is an important part of standards compliance but it is not the whole story..

Post any comments, suggestions, questions etc. here. Hope you find the article useful. By the way, Megan is the author, I'm just publishing it. Smiling

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Hi Jeeves.
Is this your own website? Very nice, looks bot-friendly, i like that. Also the content layed out nicely.
I especially like this part...

Quote: http://www.apaddedcell.com/learn

Very helpful, nice website, well done!

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Quote: Another problem programmers often have is naming of CSS classes and id's.

I'd add to that the habit many have of adding a class or ID to everything. In practice, very few elements apart from the major structural elements need to be named. Moreover, those elements don't need to be DIVs.

This page for example has only two DIVs in it. And one of those is to help out poor old IE6. Smiling

Cordially, David
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delete from internet where user_agent="MSIE" and version < 8;

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Quote: Is this your own website?

Sorry for not answering this sooner, yes it's run by the same people that run TWF. Who are, ummm, us. Laughing out loud

The forum will be moving over to the same platform as that site soon, including the same skin.

webwiz wrote: I'd add to that the habit many have of adding a class or ID to everything.

I'll second that! Hey, that link you provided: nice code. Smiling

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