W3C basically it stand World Wide Web Consortium allows users to check HTML documents for conformance to HTML (hyper text markup language) or XHTML. It also provides a quick method for web page authors to check their posted pages for mark-up errors
The basic should run on your web pages should be
1. The Markup Validator – also known as HTML validator.
2. The Link Checker – useful to find broken links.
3. The CSS validator – validate CSS sheets.
HTML hypertext markup language), using this HTML tags we can create our own web pages to be used by all the people on the internet. In this HTML tag have pre defined where we cannot create our own tags. Where as in XTML we can create our own tags, which would be very useful to develop our own web pages.
Validity is one of the quality criteria for a web page, but there are many others. But an invalid Web page has little chance of being a good web page.
W3C home page for the XHTML2 Working group, which was chartered in March 2007. XHTML2 Working group is to fulfill the promise of XML for applying XHTML to a wide variety of platforms with proper attention paid to internationalization, accessibility, a device –independence, usability and document structuring. The group will provide an essential piece for supporting rich Web content that combines XHTML with other W3C work on areas such as math, scalable vector graphic, synchronized multimedia, and forms, in cooperation with other Working Groups.
W3C produces what are known as “Recommendations”. These are specifications, developed by W3C working groups, and then reviewed by Members of the Consortium. A W3C Recommendation indicates that consensus has been reached among the Consortium Members that a specification is appropriate for widespread use.
There are also many excellent tools developed outside W3C to help improve the quality of Web pages.
HTML tidy, originally developed at W3C, is a program that can help automatically clean up HTML pages.
Validome offer a very reliable validator for HTML, XHTML and WML, in different languages.
The WDG HTML validator is another excellent online validation service.
Site Valet by Nick Kew is a comprehensive set of Quality Assurance tools for checking and monitoring your web sites.
The W3C also hosts a number of other Open Source software projects. In addition to this validator, the W3C is offering a number of other tools to help you check other types of documents (CSS, RDF, P3P…), find broken links in your Web pages, and so on.
This validator can process documents written in most markup languages. Supported documents types include the HTML and XHTML family. The Markup Validator can also validate web documents written with an SGML or XML DTD, provided they use a proper document type declaration.
This validator is also “An HTML validating system conforming to International Standard, Hypertext Markup Language, and International Standard, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)” – which basically means that in addition to W3C recommendations, it can validated according to these ISO standard.
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