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What error are you getting on the site? If you are talking about W3C validation, it doesn't matter to me. What matters is that the site works.

No normal site passes W3C validation (google.com, microsoft.com, apple.com, yahoo.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, etc.)

 

Because it doesn't affect user experience or anything else. The better question I think is why *does* it matter for you?

 

As you said yourself, there are no errors here. You are relying on a third-party site to tell you if you have errors based on their own criteria. The only relevant errors are ones you encounter when on the site in question.

If W3C mattered whatsoever, don't you think websites like Google, Apple, Microsoft (the companies who make browsers even) would follow W3C guidelines?

If you look at the "about" page for the W3C validator, the intended purpose of the validator is to help site owners catch unintended mistakes, it doesn't have an intended purpose of helping people pass validation 100%.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/about.html

There are no unintended mistakes on our main webpage (at least not ones that W3C brought to light).

Again, the only relevant errors for our site are ones that happen on our site.

 

No, there is not.

 

Where do you see that? If you go here, and search for the word "mistake" they don't even have that word on the page.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https://www.digitalpoint.com/

Either way, until there are errors *on* our site, we aren't going to try to confirm to the standards of some governing body that has no relevance for user user experience. I highly doubt there's *any* major site that passes their validation tool checks. It's one of those things where if you are super bored and add extra markup to your site (which in turn makes it slower) so you can have a warm and fuzzy feeling that W3C thinks you are swell, by all means... go for it.

 

Yep... But browser compatibility is more important that "perfectly" formed HTML when I comes down to it.

 

Back when sites were hand coded it was a useful tool to see what we'd missed. I'm not sure I ever got a site down to 0 errors but there was definitely the expectation that the list should be really short.

With the use of third party scripts (Xenforo, WordPress) we no longer have control over the production of a site and it won't be appropriate to go delving into the code to make fixes because they'll need to be repeated with every upgrade. Add to that the user generated content (like this post) and you are losing a bit more control.



Here's an image - but it won't have alt tags because I've just copied and pasted it into the post - it was never even a file. Now the forum could demand I put one in but that reduces the user experience and makes me less likely to contribute. Edit: the forum gives it a basic alt tag but to be really useful it should be provided by the user.

There are users on here who make a big deal about the validator but it's a bit like a vegan eating honey. The odd minor slip up isn't the end of the world.

 

Editor is actually Redactor, not TinyMCE.