Standards Compliance
written by: admin
Date Written: 8/18/07
Last Updated: 1/15/10
Since this will be a big project and I don't know how often or how much I will work on it I am going to start this article to document my findings in getting the site standards compliant and cross browser compatible.
testing page
check for broken links
html validator
css validator
1. There are only three things to note at present. IE does not recognize percentages when dealing with borders, padding, or margins in widths of divs.
2. I will be converting from transitional to strict.
3. W3C validation is having trouble recognizing some things. I think it may have to do with the dynamic drive javascript scripts.
The latest doctype to use is
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Info on the appropriate character set to use is found at the
W3 validator site. From there I learned that I want to use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
HTML validator will not recognize
unless it is stated as its specific ascii code
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