We don’t need a Web Standard
March 24, 2008 – 3:25 pm by Dani IswaraMaybe you’ll say validating webpages, websites or weblogs is very important.
But in fact, currently, we don’t need a (W3C) web standard.
What is the main purpose of a website / weblog?
Websites were intended to be accessible to everyone.
X/HTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) validation and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) test of some popular websites (search engines, news portals, blog & cms, operating systems & distros, browsers) are listed here.
This post contains 6 tables, be aware of your bandwidth.
| Website | XHTML | CSS | WAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSN | valid XHTML 1.0 Strict | valid | passed |
| no Doctype found, 40 errors | 1 error | passed | |
| Yahoo | no Doctype found, 34 errors | valid | failed |
| Website | XHTML | CSS | WAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC News | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 235 errors | 4 errors, 9 warnings | failed |
| BBC News | not valid HTML 4.0 Transitional, 88 errors | 2 errors, 8 warnings | failed |
| CNN | not valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 37 errors | 229 errors | failed |
| Google News | no Doctype found, 1265 errors | 47 errors | failed |
| MSNBC | no Doctype found, 43 errors | 4 errors | failed |
| Yahoo News | not valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 171 errors | 324 errors | failed |
| Website | XHTML | CSS | WAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antara News | not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 42 errors | 1 error, 2 warnings | failed |
| Bali Post Online | no Doctype found, 59 errors | valid | failed |
| Banjarmasin Post Online | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 202 errors | 62 errors | passed |
| Jawa Pos Online | no Doctype found, 207 errors | 15 errors | failed |
| Kompas | not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 603 errors | 8 errors | failed |
| Koran SINDO | not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 150 errors | error on test | failed |
| Papua Pos | no Doctype found, 122 errors | 8 errors | failed |
| Website | XHTML | CSS | WAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blogger | not valid HTML 4.01 Strict, 19 errors | 28 errors | failed |
| Drupal | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 2 errors | 18 errors | passed |
| Edublogs | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 41 errors | 2 errors | failed |
| Friendster | not valid HTML 4.0 Transitional, 90 errors | 8 errors, 4 warnings | failed |
| Joomla | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 37 errors | 9 errors | failed |
| Moodle | not valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, 36 errors | 86 errors | failed |
| Movable Type | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 10 errors | 3 errors | failed |
| Serendipity | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 17 errors | 3 errors | failed |
| Textpattern | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 4 errors | 2 errors | passed |
| TypePad | valid XHTML 1.0 Strict | 2 errors | passed |
| WordPress.com | valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 5 errors | passed |
| WordPress.org | valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 3 errors | failed |
| Website | XHTML | CSS | WAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | not valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 10 errors | 49 errors | passed |
| Debian | valid HTML 4.01 Strict | 1 error | failed |
| Fedora Project | valid HTML 4.01 Strict | 3 errors | passed |
| Linux | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 6 errors | valid | passed |
| Linux Mint | valid XHTML 1.0 Strict | valid | failed |
| MEPIS | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 84 errors | valid | failed |
| openSUSE | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 1 error | 3 errors | failed |
| PCLinuxOS | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 94 errors | 9 errors | failed |
| Slackware | no Doctype found, 34 errors | valid | passed |
| Ubuntu | not valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, 54 errors | valid | failed |
| Windows | not valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 29 errors | 62 errors | passed |
| Website | XHTML | CSS | WAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camino | valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | 2 errors | passed |
| Firefox | valid XHTML 1.0 Strict | valid, 4 warnings | passed |
| Flock | not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 59 errors | valid | failed |
| Internet Explorer | no Doctype found, 171 errors | 46 errors | failed |
| Konqueror | valid XHTML 1.o Transitional | valid, 548 warnings | passed |
| Opera | valid XHTML 1.0 Strict | valid, 1 warning | failed |
| Safari | not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, 7 errors | 61 errors | passed |
Tools:
- W3C Markup validator
- W3C CSS validator
- WAI test
- Web developer (Firefox extension)
Do we really need a (W3C recommendation) web standard? 
- Dani Iswara - Indonesia.
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