Rodent Regatta

Andrei vented. Then, he gave us some great tips (watch the comments here as well). He achieved XHTML Strict validation for a short time, then found the flaws creeping back in via things other than his own markup.

That information is helpful to those of us who aren’t sure whether it is something we’re doing or something the tools we use are doing to cause non-validating (invalid?) markup. Terminology in all of this is important to me, though I’m not certain which of these are redundant relative to one or more of the others:

• valid
• accessible
• semantic
• standards-compliant
• well-formed
• usable
• XHTML
• CSS
• optimized or lightweight

While I’m willing to learn, I’d like to learn in the context of a tool that helps me make sure I’m conforming to the rules that underpin each of the above terms. The more I read, the more confident I become that such a tool doesn’t exist.

Notepad with know-how is the only way.