My volcano web assignment was published on to the Curtin server in the students presentations area. I copied and pasted the URL into the w3 HTML page validator. Unfortunately I received the message.... "this document cannot be checked...Forbidden." This has obviously got something to do with the Curtin server. Looks like no way around this one....
I then re-published my volcano web project onto a private server. I re-copied the URL "http://www.mcmasters.com.au/uni/test/" into the page validator, and I received a result....
Unfortunately the result was not positive. There were 6 validation errors.
1. Error Line 26 column 8: start tag for "LI" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.
2. Error Line 27 column 5: document type does not allow element "LI" here.
I have read through all of the explanations of the errors listed. They all sound incredibly technical. I was surprised that I received any errors at all because I had followed the tutorial closely. I am a little bit confused, because although the project apparently has errors, they are not visible in my browsers, Firefox and IE.
Just out of interest I decided to validate another website. I thought I would try the ninemsn site because of the fact that it has thousands of visitors everyday. I also reasoned that it would have a team of highly paid and professional IT people working on it who would probably have a fair idea of whats going on.
Surprisingly the validation failed with a total of 308 errors !! I can only assume that the ninemsn site has been built to be viewed in a wide range of browsers, anything less would be unacceptable....I certainly never had any problems visiting it...I am confused as to why this would be, so I think I will raise it on a discusion board.
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