Ha! W3.org should practice what they preach!

[richard]

While checking my code for validating properly, I ran across a real good
one.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_target

Now run this one through their own validator.
13 errors, 3 warnings.

In their base file for the anchor tag, they preach, "do not use 'target' in
the <a> tag", yet they flat out do it themselves!

Yet, none of the errors reported showed this as being wrong, while the
validator screamed bloody hell on my own code.

"There is no attribute 'target' ".

Now the question is, when and how do use the "target" appropriately?
In my particular case, target is being used for javascript and if I place
it elsewhere, may screw up the script.

In using 4.01 strict though, it seems to be ok.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

While checking my code for validating properly, I ran across a real
good one.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_target

w3schools.com != w3.org

Now run this one through their own validator.
13 errors, 3 warnings.

I got 13 errors and 6 warnings running that page at w3schools.com through
the validator at w3.org. I don't see a validator at w3schools.com.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

While checking my code for validating properly, I ran across a real
good one.

The only good one is you not remembering the hundreds of times that
"W3Schools is not related to the W3C in any way" has been posted.

Now the question is, when and how do use the "target" appropriately?

"target" is valid in Transitional but not Strict. But then of course,
Transitional is for transitioning legacy pages, not new ones.

 

[Doug Miller]

While checking my code for validating properly, I ran across a real good
one.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_target

Now run this one through their own validator.

Richard, you've been told a number of times that w3schools.com is not
affiliated in any way with w3.org. Haven't you been paying attention?

 

[richard]

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LOL.. at least a few times that I remember.
http://community.ultrawebsitehosting.com/john-fixed-t25438.html

That thread had nothing to do with what is being discussed here.

But that's typical of you. Taking something out of context and twisting it
around to suit your needs.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

[2 quoted lines suppressed]

LOL.. at least a few times that I remember.
http://community.ultrawebsitehosting.com/john-fixed-t25438.html

That thread had nothing to do with what is being discussed here.

But that's typical of you. Taking something out of context and
twisting it around to suit your needs.

You didn't look far enough into that forum (Usenet)thread, apparently.
Page 2, posted 02-16-2009, 10:32 AM by Chris F.A. Johnson and replying
to you about W3Schools, told you:
"(You do know that w3schools has no connection with W3C?)"

and a few posts later in that thread, I told you,
"The page proves that w3schools isn't a place to be trusted."

Yet here again you seem to think it's the W3C. You will never catch on,
will you?

 

[Doug Miller]

[2 quoted lines suppressed]

LOL.. at least a few times that I remember.
http://community.ultrawebsitehosting.com/john-fixed-t25438.html

That thread had nothing to do with what is being discussed here.

Yes, it has. Look at page two, where you were told that w3schools is not
connected in any way with W3C -- that was MORE THAN TWO YEARS AGO, RtS, and
you STILL think that they're the same thing.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem?

 

[Denis McMahon]

While checking my code for validating properly, I ran across a real good
one.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_target

Now run this one through their own validator. 13 errors, 3 warnings.

Which validator?

I didn't know www.w3schools.com had a validator, although their inability
to validate against the w3c.org validation tools is a regular complaint
about the commercial www.w3schools.com

However, to blame w3c.org when w3schools.com's pages fail to validate is
like blaming richard when evan's pages fail to validate, except that I
may have those two the wrong way round.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

 

[VanguardLH]

richard wrote:

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_target

<snip - more blather>

So richard thinks any site starting with "w3" in its domain name just
has to belong to w3.org (see his Subject header). richard is too lazy
to scroll to the bottom of their web pages to notice just who is
copyrighting those web pages, or to look up the domain registration.
Just because the registrant said they are in PA, USA, Refsnes Data AS is
located at Skarahødden 23, Sandnes, Rogaland, 4326, Norway (see
http://www.hoovers.com/company/Refsnes_Data_AS/kyrrrxhkj-1.html). They
hide their domain behind a private registration; i.e., their registrar
(Network Solutions) is listed as the domain registrant which is a lie.
Their web site is hosted at MaximumASP, KY, USA but that's not where the
site owner's are located, either.

Google map of location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...7&iwloc=A&q=+Skarahødden+23+Sandnes,+Rogaland
Street view points to what looks like the backside of housing
(residences with adjoining side walls). Sometimes Google Maps is wrong,
like showing a location on the wrong side of the street, yet you can see
"23" is the backside (or maybe that's the front the the covered area is
the car park) of a domicile. Follow backward along the street until you
hit the intersecting street and notice you're seeing the backside of
rather stark residences. Kind of a dismal looking area. Guess they
haven't sold many "certificates" to afford a better house.

If you look at their privacy and other web pages, help @ refnesdata.no
is listed as their e-mail contact. .no is the ccTLD for Norway. No, an
owner doesn't have to be the size of Microsoft to have a valid company
web site but this one is not affiliated with any school and the
certificates they issue have absolutely no value. You'll find no
accreditation noted for any school nor for any certification authority.

It's a commercial site. They want you to think that their talent
certificates that you BUY ($95) will have any value with employers.
Yeah, right. Go read http://www.w3schools.com/cert/default.asp. Their
"free" online study is their web site except it is riddled with mistakes
that they refuse to correct when notified; however, their site is
probably better than trying to memorize a bunch of brain dumps to cheat
on the test. Notice their "about" web page never really does say who
THEY are. There is no certified "school" involved with this site. An
employer will look at this cert and look at you and say "What the ****
is this? Something you printed at home?" Their site says over 6000 of
their certs have been purchased. Yep, 6000+ suckers.