HTML problems (was Re: [cobalt-users] UK2Net Raq3)

[James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:34 12/08/2000, WayneB6094@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 8/11/00 11:42:11 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
> tworley@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > Nutscrape sux :-P
> >  works fine for me in IE, and I can't find anyone who uses Netscape to
> verify
> >  it to find the problem...
>
> No, it's just that Netscape doesn't "correct" HTML errors like IE does (which
> allows for some pretty poor HTML if you only use IE to test with).  If your
> page is not displaying in Netscape, chances are pretty good that you forgot
> to close a TABLE tag.
>
> Oh, and I use Netscape almost exclusively.

I would strongly recommend that all website
developers run an HTML validator across their
site.

This will catch the broken HTML that is
generated by most WYSIWYG tools, as well
as the plain-old human mistakes.

J



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