Posted by David Dorward on 09/12/06 20:51

Runnin' on Empty wrote:

> Do this simple test, run any major enterprise level or ecommerce site
> through the w3c validator, guess what, none validate.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2F

Valid

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2Fproducts%2F

Valid

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2Fproducts%2Fes%2Fendpoint%2Fsav-windows.html

Valid

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2Fproducts%2Fes%2Fendpoint%2Feval%2F

Valid

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2Fsecurity%2F

Valid

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2Fsecurity%2Fanalyses%2F

Valid

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sophos.com%2Fsecurity%2Fanalyses%2Fdopozor475.html

Valid

> The reason is that there is more to successfully using the Internet (or
> WWW, if you prefer), than making sure the HTML or CSS validates.

Yes, there is more to it, but that doesn't stop validity being a yummy piece
of very low hanging fruit on the tree of quality assurance.

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