[thelist] Validation errors == optimization?

Bill Moseley moseley at hank.org
Thu Jun 2 17:57:31 CDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Will <willthemoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I care about validation when marking up documents that may be around for a
> while or delivering templates to a client. Otherwise, only when something's
> not working. :)
>

I like to validate because it makes me feel like "something not working" is
less likely to happen in the first place.  And I also like to validate
before hunting down Javascript errors.

But, do those validation errors have anything to do with better SEO?



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>
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> On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
>
> > When I queried about these validation errors:
> >
> >
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ithenticate.com%2Fblog%2F
> >
> > The response was
> >
> > ...written in a way to be optimized for Google and Bing and not to
> conform
> > with W3C standards. This will produce validation errors though these
> errors
> > have no impacts on browser rendering, performance or functionality.
> >
> >
> > Is there any truth in the statement about being optimized for Google and
> > Bing means there needs to be validation errors?
> >
> > It's easy to be too concerned with validation, and it's may be quite true
> > that has no effect on rendering or performance.  What kind of importance
> do
> > you put on validation?
> >
> > Frankly, it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to make it validate
> > (considering most are un-secaped entities).  Plus, if you specify "XHTML
> 1.0
> > Transitional"  then are you not saying it conforms to that?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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