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Re: [LUG] web site testing



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On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 9:15 pm, Kai Hendry wrote:
> Again, you DO NOT test with different browsers, platforms and what have
> you. Those days should be behind us.

Almost. I've just completed a major overhaul of a couple of sites and from 
that practical experience, the days of multiple testing are almost gone, but 
not quite. There is no need to bother testing on multiple platforms now 
though. I test solely on Linux and in three browsers only, Konqueror (because 
it has the built-in tool to validate the HTML and CSS directly from the 
browser window), Mozilla (because if Mozilla is OK, so are Netscape6 and the 
most common browsers) and Lynx (because it gives an inkling of how specialist 
browsers may see the page).

> You test to web standards. Simply huh?

One site was to HTML4 Transitional, another (www.dclug.org.uk) was to HTML4.01 
Strict. Despite each page verifying using the validator, there are still 
small differences in browser implementation. (I do mean small too - I'm 
getting problems with only 3 distinct tags in the entire HTML4 standard.)

Konqueror (Mandrake 8, KDE3.0) doesn't quite do as well as Mozilla and Lynx. 
However, after changing 250 pages by hand and 7,500 via self-written scripts, 
to only have problems with 12 is OK by me.

!!

> http://validator.w3.org or get the package:

I agree with Kai. If standards can get 7,738 correct out of 7,750 then I'd say 
that most personal sites can be covered simply by validation.

Meet the standard and leave it at that.

Now to get the rest of the Internet to see the light.

It's you and I against the WWW, Kai!

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Neil Williams
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http://www.codehelp.co.uk
http://www.dclug.org.uk

http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/

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