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Best Practice N°149- Level2- Section code
Description
The W3C that are used on the homepage conform to standards.
Objectives
Makes it possible to have a correct rendering by tools that respect the current standards.
Makes for better and easier code maintenance and evolution
makes the site independent of specific user agents.
Possible technical solutions:
The HTML or XHTML code uses a valid DTD une des DTD from the list provided by the W3C. On this matter please read: document structure HTML-XHTML(OpenWeb tutorials) ;
Your site uses valid CSS code: CSS1 an/or CSS2. On this matter please read: page layout (OpenWeb tutorials) ;
The scripts in use on the site are conform to standards DOM1 and/or DOM2. On this matter please read: dynamic web pages (OpenWeb tutorials).
Control methods:
Validate the HTML code : http://validator.w3.org/ http://www.validome.org/ http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
Validate the CSS code : http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/
Put these Best Practices to use.
