I have seen often this kind of lines in many many websites source code.. i wonder what is W3.org ? and what role they play in website designing ?

 

 

 

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i think w3 is for websites where thery can chek if its complient to web standards in text and image based browsers

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W3, also known as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is a group that sets the internet standards which internet browsers and web developers will follow. By doing this, it makes sure that whatever you did on your webpage will be viewed properly in browsers which were built based on the standard.

Those lines of codes in your post indicates that the webpage was created with reference to the specific standard on the w3c website.

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Its pretty funny actually, isnt there a virus related to of the same name?

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It does more than that - it gives the browser a set of rules by which to render your code. The doctype you've posted is a strict one which means the browser will be less forgiving of mistakes in your code than if you used a transitional doctype.

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I use W3.org to help me validate my website so that it can be displayed in most Internet browsers properly (although you might want to look at my Vent post).

w3schools.com is related to w3.org. It teaches you abotu Web development such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and many others such as XML.

I think they are both great. Thier founder is Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the Internet.

Remember to validate websites at http://validator.w3.org.

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w3schools is the besdt place to learn to make webpages. Since they make all the standards it's pretty logical to learn from them. They also have certification. I also think their scripting tutorials (php, xhtml, etc) are very good and have tons of examples and references. That's where i learned html and css from.

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Somehow I don't really like that validator. I'm not sure if any site will appear errorless. Try validating google.com or yahoo.com. Even these websites have tons of errors on the validator. What other sites are perfect?

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How ironic: Microsoft's website passes the standard with no errors (as far as I was able to see from running the validator), though, as you just stated, Google failed with 47 errors. Pretty weird. But then again, after a bit of peaking around, a lot (if nor most) of Microsoft's other pages seem to fail. At least they tried hard in making their home page, which is weird considering how Microsoft is Microsoft (and how Google is Google...)

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