{"id":13,"date":"2006-10-02T12:27:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-10-02T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T11:27:19","slug":"who-cares-about-w3c-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/13-who-cares-about-w3c-validation.html","title":{"rendered":"Who cares about W3C validation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reseaching a piece in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itweek.co.uk\">IT Week<\/a>, I checked out several prominent home pages in the <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/\">W3C Markup Validation Service<\/a>. There wasn&#8217;t room for all the results in the piece, so I&#8217;m posting them below, best to worst:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ibm.com: passed<\/li>\n<li>sun.com: 1 error<\/li>\n<li>microsoft.com: 2 errors<\/li>\n<li>digg.com: 5 errors<\/li>\n<li>adobe.com: 15 errors<\/li>\n<li>redhat.com: 18 errors<\/li>\n<li>yahoo.com: 41 errors<\/li>\n<li>google.com: 43 errors<\/li>\n<li>bbc.co.uk: 45 errors<\/li>\n<li>myspace.com: 130 errors<\/li>\n<li>ebay.com: 263 errors<\/li>\n<li>amazon.com: 1134 errors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disclaimer: This was early last week; the exact figures will have changed by now. I found it interesting that only IBM managed a pass, others such as Microsoft and Sun are clearly trying to comply, while the likes of MySpace, eBay and Amazon apparently could not care less.<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody care? Mostly not; all we care about is web sites that work in our favourite browser, though in theory there is a connection between the two. Which was the point of my article: the W3C seems to be of decreasing relevance these days.<\/p>\n<p>Still, kudos to IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Tags:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/w3c\" rel=\"tag\">w3c<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/standards\" rel=\"tag\">standards<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reseaching a piece in today&#8217;s IT Week, I checked out several prominent home pages in the W3C Markup Validation Service. There wasn&#8217;t room for all the results in the piece, so I&#8217;m posting them below, best to worst: ibm.com: passed sun.com: 1 error microsoft.com: 2 errors digg.com: 5 errors adobe.com: 15 errors redhat.com: 18 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/13-who-cares-about-w3c-validation.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who cares about W3C validation?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}