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5Jan/081

Depressing Validation Results

On a whim, I decided to attempt validating every website I mentioned yesterday.  Overall, XHTML won out the results.  But they are depressing none the less.

  • XHTML
    • Blogger (This Blog)
      • XHTML 1.0 Transitional
      • FAILED
      • 70 Errors
    • Opera
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • PASS!
    • FireFox (Mozilla)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • PASS!
    • Facebook (Home Page for signed in user)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 659 Errors (wow.)
    • MySpace (Home Page)
      • NO DOCTYPE FOUND (FAILED)
    • Twitter (Home page for signed in user)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 82 Errors
    • W3C (Home Page)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • PASS!
  • HTML
    • Microsoft (Home page)
      • HTML 4.0 Transitional
      • FAILED
      • 31 Errors
    • Yahoo!
      • HTML 4.01 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 294 Errors
    • Apple
      • HTML 4.01 Transitional
      • FAILED
      • 4 Errors
    • Google (non-iGoogle homepage)
      • NO DOCTYPE FOUND (FAILED)
    • WHATWG (Homepage)
      • HTML 4.01 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 5 Errors

PASS/FAIL Results:

  • XHTML
    • 3/7 Passed
  • HTML
    • 0/5 Passed

The Results are bad enough as they are for the XHTML websites, but not a single HTML website validates, not even the WHATWG.  Irony much?

  • Hixie

    Oops. Fixed the WHATWG front page. Note that the one remaining error is actually an error in HTML4 (fixed in HTML5), namely that <script> can’t have an id attribute.