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Checking out the correctness of a site's coding Adrian 10-23-2004
Posted by Adrian on October 23, 2004, 2:09 pm
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> Could someone please tell me how I can check out the correctness of a
site's
> coding. I have brought about a website, checked it out with various
> browsers. It seemed to be ok. Then I come across a browser that has
problems
> with my site, and I'd like to find out what I have done wrong. Apologies
if
> this question has been asked a million times before, however I do not have
> this information and would be grateful if someone could provide me with an
> answer.


I am very grateful for the responses.
Thanks a lot.
Adrian.




Posted by Daniel R. Tobias on October 23, 2004, 4:28 pm
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Adrian wrote:

> Could someone please tell me how I can check out the correctness of a site's
> coding. I have brought about a website, checked it out with various
> browsers. It seemed to be ok. Then I come across a browser that has problems
> with my site, and I'd like to find out what I have done wrong. Apologies if
> this question has been asked a million times before, however I do not have
> this information and would be grateful if someone could provide me with an
> answer.

Some discussion of validators and linters, with links to several of
them, is in my site:
http://webtips.dan.info/validators.html

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Posted by brucie on October 23, 2004, 7:27 pm
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In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html Adrian said:

> I come across a browser that has problems with my site, and I'd like
> to find out what I have done wrong.

how refreshing. i cant remember the last time someone thought to check
their markup rather than just blaming the browser.

HTML Validators:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://valet.webthing.com/page/
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
XML: http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/

"HTML validation" is a good tool, but just a tool
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html
Beyond validation
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/beyond-validation

css checkers:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/
http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/checkers

Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
Accessibility Toolbar
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/

website analysis
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

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