Tagged with validation
So hopefully now you’re convinced that validation is A Good Thing, have decided which doctype you’re going to use and have resolved never to use quirks mode again. Check, check, check. Ok people, that means enough of the talking. We are finally get to the technical stuff: how to validate pages! Validating using the W3C [...]
Published in ASP.NET on Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Having a doctype in your webpage isn’t just about making your webpage validate. The most important practical reason to include one is to make sure the browsers are rendering in standards compliance mode. Most browsers have two modes for displaying webpages, standards mode and quirks mode. Webpages with a doctype are rendered using standards mode, [...]
Published in ASP.NET on Monday, January 7th, 2008
So making sure that your webpages validate is important because it will make the pages render more consistently across different browsers, meaning you can spend less time debugging cross browser incompatibility and more time with your loved ones/down the pub/plotting world domination. But what are we going to validate against? The current most popular options [...]
Published in ASP.NET on Monday, December 31st, 2007
As a web developer, much of my working day is spent at the mercy of browsers. Sometimes it feels like I spend all my time coaxing useful work from bratty children who don’t like to get along. One of the important tools available for convincing the browsers to play nice is HTML and CSS validation. [...]
Published in ASP.NET on Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Find out more about doing web standards compliant development if you develop in asp.net.
Published in ASP.NET on Thursday, December 27th, 2007
