I’ve been paying some attention to the discussion about the release of Firefox v1.0 here on TechRepublic, and as is usually the case when a discussion starts somewhere about whether some other browser is a serious contender for market share with Internet Explorer the subject of W3C standards compliant code came up. It’s true that IE isn’t a standards compliant browser, and in fact doesn’t follow its own lead from one version to the next, and since it commands a sizable lead in the browser market this lack of consistency lends to a great deal of the Web being standards noncompliant.
Many may not be aware that at www.w3c.org you can find a code validator that is used to check the code of a website to determine whether it’s standards compliant. Apparently the web developers at TechRepublic aren’t aware of that, for instance. If you cruise on over to w3c.org and enter the TechRepublic URL into the validator, it is identified as being invalid markup.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https://www.techrepublic.com