Monday, February 14, 2011

What is W3C Validation?

W3C (short for World Wide Web Consortium) is an international consortium, where a group of experts, the public and it's staff work together to deliver and maintain standards on the world wide web, called as "Web Standards".

The W3C was started way back in 1994, by Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the World Wide Web) and a few colleagues who created W3C as an industry consortium dedicated to building consensus around Web technologies.

The consortium has a set of guidelines or technical specifications specified for all languages known to the world wide website deisgn platform. You might be aware of the popular languages like HTML, XHTML, CSS etc. For each of them the W3C have specified their technical guidelines, which more or less are like the official vocabulary for these languages. So anyone who uses these languages on the world wide web are supposed to abide by the specifications and follow the rules of usage.

So W3C validation is actually the process of checking and measuring if one of the specified languages (like HTML, CSS, XHTML) is abiding by the technial guidelines and if yes, by how much.

There are free tools suggested by the W3C to do this, and anyone who wishes to check the validity of any code available on the world wide web can use it.



You can check W3C Validator @ :  http://validator.w3.org/

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