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Validate AND Repair_MX > v2004 (???)
Posted 14 Apr 2007 20:19:50
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14 Apr 2007 20:19:50 Mark Forman posted:
<b>People...</b>I had a Microsoft MVP tell me (concerning how different my website looks in Mozilla & FireFox...as compared to IE):
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>I'm not sure it'll ever look correct, without dropping the old version of Dreamweaver you're using. It simply creates badly mangled, marginal HTML which will not validate. Hard to read HTML, even simple layouts like this can cause problems for the browser trying to render the layout, since it has no idea what you actually intend it to look like.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>Thing is...even tho my site was created in DW MX...I actually have v2004 & hardly ever use it.
So my question is...if I open up each of my site's pages in 2004...& validate them...the errors show up under <i>Results</i>. Is there a way to then repair/correct each of the errors in v2004 (to 2004 standards)?
Thanks,
<b>mark4man</b>
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Replied 15 Apr 2007 14:33:22
15 Apr 2007 14:33:22 Kenneth Halley replied:
Thats rich coming from a Microsoft employee given its their browsers that cause all the headaches!
Personally I would use one of the validators on the w3c site depending on the dtd you used to build your site- possibly html 4.01 transitional the way you speak?
Obviously I dont know what kind of site/layout you have but its usually best to desgin for the most specification compliant browser- in my opinion Firefox 2 and then hack the errors you find in other browsers afterwards (you are using css?). I found when I went over to DW8 that using its better css support and revisiting some of my templates which used to render oddly in DW MX2004 though were fine in a browser, once i cleaned up and validated my layout code and in DW8, going back to DW2004 a lot of the layout issues were sorted. so to sum up validate what your trying to do with your page code first, get the errors sorted - often fixing one error casues everything else to fall into place - or identifies a heap of further misplaced code that you don't need!
If it's a layout issue- and you have css support- I usually use the line
* {border: solid 1px #ff0000;}
as a useful debug aid in the top of my stylesheet to see whats causing the issues.
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www.halleynet.co.uk
Personally I would use one of the validators on the w3c site depending on the dtd you used to build your site- possibly html 4.01 transitional the way you speak?
Obviously I dont know what kind of site/layout you have but its usually best to desgin for the most specification compliant browser- in my opinion Firefox 2 and then hack the errors you find in other browsers afterwards (you are using css?). I found when I went over to DW8 that using its better css support and revisiting some of my templates which used to render oddly in DW MX2004 though were fine in a browser, once i cleaned up and validated my layout code and in DW8, going back to DW2004 a lot of the layout issues were sorted. so to sum up validate what your trying to do with your page code first, get the errors sorted - often fixing one error casues everything else to fall into place - or identifies a heap of further misplaced code that you don't need!
If it's a layout issue- and you have css support- I usually use the line
* {border: solid 1px #ff0000;}
as a useful debug aid in the top of my stylesheet to see whats causing the issues.
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www.halleynet.co.uk