Google Blogs Does Not Validate

[boingo]

Pretty amusing to see that none of the Google blogs does validate according to the W3C Markup standard. Validating your website is something every webmaster should put some extra time to, maybe not TOO much time, if unexperienced it could be a pain in the macarena.

367 Errors for the Webmaster Central blog (blogspot misses ?)

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgooglewebmastercentral.blogspot.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

The other google blogs are in the right navigation bar, I didn't verify all :p. On the other hand good on them working to help us instead of making their own pages visitor and browser friendly ;)

[hamidof]

Did you try validating www.google.com?

[rcj662]

I think the saying do as i say not as i do applies to google. Some of the blogger and other sites they own were not that good for Seo.

[heinlein99]

Who gives a shit? Screw the W3C. I've got my own standards.

[IEmailer.com]

W3C is not one of the main factors to rank your site in the search engines.

[flash902007]

LOL very interesting. you would have thought such huge sites with multi-million pound budgets would at least be validated if nothing else...

[Forrest]

LOL very interesting. you would have thought such huge sites with multi-million pound budgets would at least be validated if nothing else...

Because pages that validate to any particular standard are a stream of income...?

It's a little funny that their SERPs use tables for layouts, too, but why not?

[heinlein99]

I've never understood the vitriol against tables. Where does it come from? Are people having table problems? Is there some pernicious anti-table lobby?

[Forrest]

Tables are far less flexible than modern layout methods, they tend to be a lot more code heavy ( think of a page with seven levels of nested tables to get things to look right ), and the way a lot of web pages use them isn't very "semantic" - future friendly. Tables are great when you want to display tabular data - when you want to show a dump from a database table or make something look like a spreadsheet. But when your paragraphs, list items, and such are all marked up with table-data tags, whatever software is reading the document ( Internet Explorer, GoogleBot, whatever ) has less info to work with about what the content represents.

[bomberman]

367 Errors for the Webmaster Central blog (blogspot misses ?)

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

This tool gives my Gems Collections a 479 errors and 540 for my Fine Diamond Jewelry.

[WebTalkVB]

W3C is only an organization it isn't an IEEE standard so why should they have to. It like when you tell someone to search for something on the Internet, most people always seem to automatically go to Google, but is that saying that you have to use Google...nope, you could use Ask (God knows who would want to). But what I am basically saying is W3C standards is not something you have to follow, whether you are the world's top webmaster or not.

[vickyiori]

If you classic blogger, you'll get less errors. (tested)
But the new XML templates adds lost of widget crap at the end of html making it prone to more errors.