Comments on: Website Validation: My Biggest Shock This Week http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/2009/02/08/website-validation-my-biggest-shock-this-week/ Hype-Free Internet Marketing Tips Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: WealthyDragon http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/2009/02/08/website-validation-my-biggest-shock-this-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1791 WealthyDragon Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:06:15 +0000 http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/?p=439#comment-1791 There are plenty of IE 6 masochists around: 26.6% of my travel site visitors are still on 6.0 and I popped into a local coffee shop chain the other day to find they're still using it too..! I only bother to check with IE 7 and 8 and I discovered on that visit to the coffee shop that my old blog theme was all over the place in IE 6. Luckily, most of my blog visitors are on FF - it's only my travel site where the majority use IE. (But I did change my blog theme and this one is OK!) Cheers! There are plenty of IE 6 masochists around: 26.6% of my travel site visitors are still on 6.0 and I popped into a local coffee shop chain the other day to find they’re still using it too..!

I only bother to check with IE 7 and 8 and I discovered on that visit to the coffee shop that my old blog theme was all over the place in IE 6. Luckily, most of my blog visitors are on FF – it’s only my travel site where the majority use IE. (But I did change my blog theme and this one is OK!)

Cheers!

]]> By: Tony Lawrence http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/2009/02/08/website-validation-my-biggest-shock-this-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1790 Tony Lawrence Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:03:36 +0000 http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/?p=439#comment-1790 You definitely need to check with IE. Microsoft browsers have some strange quirks that can make a mess of your intentions. I sometimes forget to do that after a site wide change and it has bitten me. Sometimes I just don't care: if some idiot is using IE 6 still (or worse!), that's their problem - a lot more sites than mine are going to be broken for those people! But 7 and 8, well, I like to see that my pages at least mostly work with those.. <abbr><em>Tony Lawrence´s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/aplawrence/ZPYH/~3/bTRwx6qJjLY/never_change.html" rel="nofollow">Don't ever change, baby</a></em></abbr> You definitely need to check with IE. Microsoft browsers have some strange quirks that can make a mess of your intentions.

I sometimes forget to do that after a site wide change and it has bitten me. Sometimes I just don’t care: if some idiot is using IE 6 still (or worse!), that’s their problem – a lot more sites than mine are going to be broken for those people!

But 7 and 8, well, I like to see that my pages at least mostly work with those..

Tony Lawrence´s last blog post..Don’t ever change, baby

]]> By: links for 2009-02-08 « WealthyDragon http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/2009/02/08/website-validation-my-biggest-shock-this-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1788 links for 2009-02-08 « WealthyDragon Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:00:37 +0000 http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/?p=439#comment-1788 [...] Website Validation: My Reality Check of The Week. 238 Errors and 17 Warnings - dwn to earth with a b... There was I, confidently expecting my site to pass its validation with flying colours, and reality whacked me across the back of the head: 238 errors and 17 warnings! [...] [...] Website Validation: My Reality Check of The Week. 238 Errors and 17 Warnings – dwn to earth with a b… There was I, confidently expecting my site to pass its validation with flying colours, and reality whacked me across the back of the head: 238 errors and 17 warnings! [...]

]]> By: WealthyDragon http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/2009/02/08/website-validation-my-biggest-shock-this-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1787 WealthyDragon Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:47:49 +0000 http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/?p=439#comment-1787 Hi Tony, Good to see you back! Breaking 10,000 pages at once... That would definitely freak me out..! :D But then my technical skills are several aeons below yours. The browsers used for viewing my sites vary enormously. On my travel site 78% of visits are IE users, but on this blog it's only 32%. I guess that says that most people who are into working online steer clear of IE, whereas the others don't care. I have to admit that I check my sites in FF and IE but don't usually bother with the rest. Cheers, Martin. Hi Tony,

Good to see you back! Breaking 10,000 pages at once… That would definitely freak me out..! :D But then my technical skills are several aeons below yours.

The browsers used for viewing my sites vary enormously. On my travel site 78% of visits are IE users, but on this blog it’s only 32%. I guess that says that most people who are into working online steer clear of IE, whereas the others don’t care.

I have to admit that I check my sites in FF and IE but don’t usually bother with the rest.

Cheers,

Martin.

]]> By: Tony Lawrence http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/2009/02/08/website-validation-my-biggest-shock-this-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1786 Tony Lawrence Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:18:02 +0000 http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/?p=439#comment-1786 It always makes me grin when people giving web site advice have pages that can't pass W3C. Like you, I validate all my pages. Unfortunately, I have thousands of older pages and some of them don't validate yet - I try to get a few of them every week but sometimes I get distracted by finding other problems and off I go.. And sometimes errors creep in later. I use a CMS and sometimes I'll make a global change that breaks 10,000 pages all at once.. fortunately you can also FIX those just as quickly, but it's annoying when I don't notice the problem for a few days. CSS remains a very annoying area. I don't bother to even try to validate CSS because the browsers treat it so variably that it becomes very, very difficult. I've given up on some things related to Microsoft because it's just too hard to cover all their glitches. If parts of my CSS "break" in Microsoft browsers, I just don't care anymore! So few of my visitors use Microsoft browsers now anyway.. <abbr><em>Tony Lawrence´s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/aplawrence/ZPYH/~3/UtKRZn3PvII/mechanical_turk.html" rel="nofollow">Programming the Turk?</a></em></abbr> It always makes me grin when people giving web site advice have pages that can’t pass W3C.

Like you, I validate all my pages. Unfortunately, I have thousands of older pages and some of them don’t validate yet – I try to get a few of them every week but sometimes I get distracted by finding other problems and off I go..

And sometimes errors creep in later. I use a CMS and sometimes I’ll make a global change that breaks 10,000 pages all at once.. fortunately you can also FIX those just as quickly, but it’s annoying when I don’t notice the problem for a few days.

CSS remains a very annoying area. I don’t bother to even try to validate CSS because the browsers treat it so variably that it becomes very, very difficult. I’ve given up on some things related to Microsoft because it’s just too hard to cover all their glitches. If parts of my CSS “break” in Microsoft browsers, I just don’t care anymore! So few of my visitors use Microsoft browsers now anyway..

Tony Lawrence´s last blog post..Programming the Turk?

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