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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / February 2006Validation of Code
I am new to web design and have now built a few sites in Publisher. I am told that I should validate the code using http://validator.w3.org/ but am having difficulty doing so. Among other things, Publisher files don't seem to have a doctype tag at the top. Which doctype tag should I enter? And is there anything else I need to do in order to validate? I'm doing this in the hope that it will help with the cross browser compatibility issue (having already follwed the other suggestions in this discussion group). One of my sites is: www.polarisproperty.co.uk With many thanks, Andrew Andrew, Although David Bartosik could give you a better answer, I wouldn't waste too much time with this. The code that Publisher 2003 generates is designed to work best with IE, and only sometimes works with other browsers...its just the nature of the beast I'm afraid. Trying to tweak the code isn't likely to help. If you want true cross browser support, then switch to FrontPage or some other more appropriate application. With a little luck, maybe the next version will work better. DavidF > I am new to web design and have now built a few sites in Publisher. I am > told that I should validate the code using http://validator.w3.org/ but am [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > With many thanks, > Andrew It's been my experence that only newbies tell other newbies to validate code. Fwiw in all my years in web development I've never used a validator, nor do any of my peers. As for cross browser support you achieve that by knowledge and experience and by actual testing in all browsers. Publisher web pages will not validate well. But then Publisher isn't suited for cross browser support so validating for that purpose is a moot point.  SignatureDavid Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] http://www.davidbartosik.com > I am new to web design and have now built a few sites in Publisher. I am > told that I should validate the code using http://validator.w3.org/ but am [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > With many thanks, > Andrew
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