Yesterday, I was trying so hard to make sure my website was meeting w3c standards, but one thing stood in my obstacle, a embedded youtube video.
This is why I was trying to pass w3c standards:
1. Helps ensure accessibility for the disabled.
2. Makes your web site accessible from a number of devices, from different browsers to the growing number of surfers using mobile devices.
3. Regardless of the browser, resolution, device; etc., your Web site will look and function in the same, or at least a very similar, fashion.
4. A site that has been created using W3C standard-based code performs generally better in the majority of browsers, be it (IE) Internet Explorer, (NN) Netscape Navigator, (FF) Firefox or Safari.
5. Saves both time and money. A site that has been programmed to W3C standard has two advantages: it is downgrade-able (able to be viewed correctly) in older browsers; it is viewable and will look nearly the same across newer and continuously updated browsers (i.e., Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.)
6. When upgrading or maintaining a website this can save an enormous amount of time and research for the person performing the updates, base on you following these standards.
After further researching it came to my amazement that google, yahoo, facebook and youtube did not meet the standards of w3c! You would think the moguls of the internet would abide by such a code! I guess the oddball in this case is msn, because they actually passed the test. I actually pass the test on my homepage but I probably won’t in the future because of youtube. It always some case in which you have to deviate away from a standard but make sure you are still on point with your infomation and delivery. The most important thing with website design is making sure you end your html tags, no hanging loops and optimize your webpage to load within certain times. So if you want to abide by it you have to make a choice avoid google, yahoo, facebook widgets and youtube videos on your page and meet w3c standards, or break the standard and entertain your viewers!
If you want the link to check your website go here and type in your url. Also try out google, yahoo, facebook and youtube to see for yourself.
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I just came across this and I just like to say that I too found that very surprising. I just posted my 1st blog http://cebudragon.blogspot.com and when i tried to get is W3C validated is has 336 errors and 69 errors.It is very surprising and frustrating that the best of the web out there : google, yahoo, youtube dont pass the validation. I am glad though that my simple website http://www.cebudragon.com has passed the W3C validation and I am now attempting to create my own blog site and hopefully get it validated. By the way my blog is titled : W3V Validation. Feel free to go there and post
James