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Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Terminator — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:06:18 -0000

SO WHAT!!!!! Big fuckin deal.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Zoe Altenberg — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:15:46 -0000

They're making billions of dollars!! Can't they afford to have someone validate their stinking code?!?!?

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Um — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:55:09 -0000

Who the hell cares if it validates or not. As long as it's functional, lays out right and the client is happy, nobody f***ing cares. This whole validation thing is nothing but an overdrawn inside joke created by anal retentive web developers and the minority of the moaning and groaning blind community.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Nick — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:51:35 -0000

Nonsense, it is far more important to be supporting at least *some* documented standard than to support any specific one.

We support standards so as to ensure compatibility with current and future browsers - that's really the only reason - and since XHTML (served as XML) works correctly on fewer browsers than HTML 4.0 does, supporting it at this stage shouldn't really be your number one priority.

Personally I use XHTML served as text. It's not fully compliant with the standard, but it works on most (all?) browsers, and it will be less work to convert it later when IE finally catches up with 2007 (or should that be 1999?)

And yes, it would be nice if Google would take some steps in this direction.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Whatever — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:27:57 -0000

Please do not discuss validation until you move to XHTML Strict. I'm tired of hearing whiny designers and posers lambaste other sites for not "validating" when they're using some weak-ass interim markup.

Go strict, or go home.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Stephen Stagg — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:40:21 -0000

p.s. Try clicking the XHTML tag at the bottom of the page :D

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Stephen Stagg — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:39:20 -0000

What is more annoying is that Google ads don't seem to validate meaning that otherwise-clompliant sites come up with hundreds of warnings / errors.

Tidy gives 6 warnings for this page, things like links not having href="" and scripts not specifying content-type.

Interestingly it also gives you 31 warnings for the advert bar included. Seems like google isn't the only offender :)

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Elliott Back — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:15:58 -0000

Not sure what you mean, Eric:

Valid RSS?

According the RSS validator, things are OK. I get a warning because of a script tag in one old post.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Eric — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:08:16 -0000

I've noticed this too. But I also noticed that your version doesn't validate with Tidy:

"line 28 column 209 - Warning: '

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

George Bezel — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:01:37 -0000

Then again, JWK, you are an idiot.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Elliott Back — Sun, 15 May 2005 01:47:57 -0000

Yeah, but by the same argument, Google has so many distributed servers that a few hundred terabytes don't really matter to them ;)

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

ceejayoz — Sat, 14 May 2005 23:41:44 -0000

On the other hand, saving a single character or two results in terabytes of saved bandwidth for the amount of traffic they get.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

Elliott Bäck — Sat, 14 May 2005 20:21:10 -0000

Google, as one of the web's largest companies, should work towards web-standards whenever possible. It's true that the difference between their home page or any of their pages and a valid XHTML page are minor, but it would be a show of good faith if they *did* validate.

Re: Google Doesn’t Validate

JWK — Sat, 14 May 2005 20:12:46 -0000

That doesn't seem like a big deal to me, honestly.