Ok, this is just a general heads-up.
You know those “this is valid HTML” buttons that W3C offer? Don’t put them on your site unless you actually have valid HTML. Because people do actually click them.
I’ve just been reading down the Union’s referendum site and they have no less than 5 errors on their motions page. Why, why would you put a valid HTML button on the page when you know it’s not valid code?
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January 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I think mostly cause lots of people don’t
January 29th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
wow, im shocked - that develpers have that little respect for standards…
January 30th, 2008 at 2:51 am
I think people do. People as whole don’t but you don’t put the buttons on there to impress your average idiot. You put them on there to impress people who know a little about web developing and those people often do.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Generally you put a button on there because you believe your site to be compliant. Unfortunately CMS based sites, like the union, have user generated content which may not be compliant all the time so sometimes you get the odd page that doesn’t conform. This is obviously what you have seen.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:30 am
You calling me an average idiot?
February 5th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I think he is….
February 5th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Of course I’m not. You’re not average, you’re a very special kind of idiot.