Hey guys, yesterday i came across this site. http://validator.w3.org/ So i decided to give it a try to check on my forum. To my surprise, the result i got was 349 Errors, 190 warning(s). I'm wondering how serious is this? Will all these errors and warnings affect the forum loading speed?
ALL web sites use that validator to check for errors in their page and you SHOULD have been doing this from day one. Yes, it's dead serious.
It's a good idea to make your code valid, it doesn't cost you anything Once you learn the common mistakes, it's really easy to code within the standards. Check out the HTML validator addon for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249
I've checked on digitalpoint. It got 65 Errors, 1 warning(s). I don't understand some of the errors. etc..
Don't bother trying to work out the code on DP, it's long been abandoned, and was probably no good in the first place.
I see. Thanks for the addon, Kerosene. What will these errors actually do to the site? Will all these errors and warnings affect the forum loading speed?
They certainly won't slow down your site. But they're so easy to fix! Just replace all ampersands (&) with &. And replace all your <br> with <br />.
Both loading speed and compatibility across browsers (IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari/Chrome) can be affected majorly by this.
Okay. So this is serious. Okay. I got it. Yea..They are easy to fix. With the addon, of course. I'm not good at these stuff. lol
When validing your html markup, there are also indications what the mistakes are . It is not hard to valid .
You aren't the poor espn developer that has to wade through all that crap when anything changes. That many errors is the result of automatic code generators, laziness and amateur developers. The thought that "Well, it works" is good enough for them but don't be the one that has to make all that work all other browsers or when changes are applied.