Am I the ONLY one who cares if my HTML is valid or not? Tips & Ideas / Webrings Posted by TheBicyclingGuitaris on May 20, 2007 - 04:39 AM Valid HTML code is important for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. Why don't the Ringmasters supply valid HTML code for the Webring banners? Is it them, or is it the Ringlink software that is screwing up? I wanted to join a Ringlink webring, and the code that was given to me was full of obsolete or obsolescent attributes no longer supported in the version of HTML I run. I use XHTML 1.0, but it's basically an XML version of HTML 4 and that's been around a LONG TIME. So why are these webring code generators supplying code that does NOT PASS VALIDATION at online validators such as at w3.org? I had this same problem with the code from Webring.com, but have my own version of it cleaned up to run their SSNB code. I was hoping for better from Ringlink, but the first Ringlink webring I tried to join tonight had a table for layout with several graphics forming a composite image, and it was full of attributes that are no longer supported. When I took those attributes out the graphics of the table looked awful. Maybe I could research and find out how to use CSS to style things to restore the look of the original code, but if the original code was VALID TO BEGIN WITH I would not need to do this. Valid code is important for accessibility and for cross-browser compatibility. This article is from Ringlink   http://ringlink.org/ The URL for this story is:   http://ringlink.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=39