W3C Standards Compliant Coding - Why Bother Validating?

The W3C site itself provides a nice run-down of why Standards Compliant Coding is beneficial: http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html

I’ve endeavoured to distil the main reasons below for easy reading:

1. Standards compliant coding makes bug fixing easier. If you know the code validates, you’ve made life a lot easier for yourself (as a developer)

2. An easy “future-proof quality check”. Standards compliant code will be supported by future web platforms

3. Compliant code is easier to maintain, which means less wasted time & money!

4. Professionalism and good practice! In an industry where it seems like most people have “had a go” at some time or another, standards compliant coding is a mark of professionalism and shows that the web developer delivers work to a certain level of quality.

A bit of background info on the W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3) and was founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. You can read more here: World Wide Web Consortium.

The W3C provides a free validation tool here: http://validator.w3.org/. This is useful for all web developers / designers when checking that their code meets the W3C coding standards.

19 July 2010
Views
Permalink
Favorited 0 Times

W3C Standards Compliant Coding - Why Bother Validating?

Comments 0 Comments

Leave a Comment

Jon Jackson's Posterous

About Jon Jackson

Subscribe

Follow Me