We don’t need a Web Standard
March 24, 2008 – 15:25 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 600.Maybe you’ll say validating webpages, websites or weblogs is very important.
But in fact, currently, we don’t need a (World Wide Web Consortium; W3C) standard.
What is the main purpose of a website/weblog?
Websites were intended to be accessible to everyone. Universal access.
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (X/HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) validation and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) test of some popular websites (search engines, news portals, blog & CMS, operating systems & distros, browsers) are listed here.
This post has 6 tables.
| Website | XHTML | CSS 2 | WAI 1.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) standard?
Last updated: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 13:17
Comment by Nico on March 25, 2008 at 00:57:52
using Opera Mini 9.50
Wah,ga mudeng ni mas-maklum masih gaptek,he2
. Dari tabel artinya msn yang paling bagus ya mas…
Comment by ekowanz on March 25, 2008 at 01:27:17
using Opera 9.26 on Windows XP
loh kok korantempo.com ga ada??…
)
takut ama ndoro yaaa
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Comment by Dani Iswara on March 25, 2008 at 02:33:31
using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on GNU/Linux
Nico:
sptnya memang ada sinyal bagus buat IE selanjutnya
Comment by devari on March 25, 2008 at 03:55:39
using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows XP
ini tentang apa ya pak dokter?
saya ga nangkap antenna nya
Comment by roffi on March 25, 2008 at 09:17:07
using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows XP
just arrived on your new website.. congrats..
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Comment by Dani Iswara on March 26, 2008 at 07:08:06
using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on GNU/Linux
ekowanz:
detik jg ngga..
sori mas eko, ketangkep si memet..
devari:
just ‘uneg2′ aja bli Made
roffi:
great success for your making money online..
Comment by gdenarayana on January 29, 2009 at 18:56:59
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Windows XP
aduh, ini dah yg paling sulit, kapok saya maen valid – validan boss
mumet liat jrenkzzz…kode error dan warning sana sini
enakan nyante aja sebenarnya yah tinggal ngeblog, saya penasaran aja kok org2 bisa buat valid, saya ndak valid2…hehehe
artikelnya TOP semua bli, uenak saya bacanya
Comment by Dani Iswara on January 29, 2009 at 20:57:44
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Gentoo Linux
- gdenarayana:
iya bli wayan..ternyata emang ribet..
jd saya sangat menghargai beliau2 spt bli wayan dkk yg sudah berusaha dan berkomitmen utk menjaga validitas tsb..
ngga deh kl disuruh ngulang lg..
kadang idealisme dan tantangan dikit2 perlu jg
makasi apresiasinya..saya masi belajar..