Apathy Sketchpad

I just added a new prestigious badge to the sidebar:

It’s a special badge much like the ones that the W3C offer. It’s for websites that don’t live up to their validator’s ludicrously high standards, but are still Basically Alright. Ones that look fine in Firefox and Opera, ones that use CSS and HTML well, follow the rules, and generally conform to the spirit of the W3C guidelines, but are let down by some little piddling, trivial, pernickety ‘errors’, tags that are closed but never opened or forgetting to use & instead of &.

I reckon that any decent browser, be it a phone, computer or Wii, should be able to work around such tiny deviations from the guidelines, and requiring all websites to have perfect HTML code before they’ll render would do nothing but make it hard for amateurs to make websites and all-but impossible for anyone to make a dynamically generated website.

And making something that works in IE would be completely impossible, unless your website was just a page of text.

So if, like mine, your website doesn’t pass the W3C’s insanely pedantic validation test, but it’s still basically fine, feel free to add the badge to your website somewhere. I’d vaguely prefer you copy it to your own server, not least since I make no promise that I won’t move the image or rename it, but unless you get Serious Traffic I probably won’t care.

I may make a new image later, I don’t like the present one.