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feldon23 · #27 03-14-2003, 07:57 PM

The W3.org Validator Hall of Shame

<center></center> is depreciated? So they are officially throwing out HTML?

<td background=""> is not valid HTML because background does not exist as a td tag? I wonder how they plan to do row backgrounds IN HTML without CSS then. Maybe they are just mad because Microsoft thought of this tag first?

<img src="spacer.gif"> is not valid HTML because it does not have an ALT="" tag? My website is about fish and a screen saver. It does not need to be accessible (I use ALT religiously on my other pages however).

<body LEFTMARGIN="0" BGCOLO...> And they intend for me to override the artificial 10 px margins on all sides of the page how? I am working around what I consider a bug in HTML and they tell me I'm writing invalid code? Um, ok.

<a href="version11.html"><font face="Helvetica,Arial">Download SereneScreen Aquarium version 1.1 with the new Lionfish!</a></font> They're still worried about non-perfect nesting? This is why you see hundreds of font tags on pages that could get by with 10. If a browser cannot handle "different" nesting, then the browser is buggy, not the HTML.

And there is no way to turn off these nuisance alarms in http://validator.w3.org/. I have seen, no lie, 1,000 errors on a page that displays perfectly well on IE, Opera, and Netscape before. Why can't it just tell me if I have any "show-stopping" HTML like missing end tags?

I guess vBulletin is full of HTML problems too since every single URL has this error flagged:

<a href="../forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1287">

cannot generate system identifier for general entity "threadid"

My HTML validator is Netscape 4.07. It absolutely breaks if you have 1 letter out of place. I know a few tags that hard-lock the program.

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