A survey of the HTML compliance of home pages of Web sites for participants on the Benchmarking Web Sites workshop hosted by NEMLAC has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.
You can use the service yourself either by going to the HTML Validator or by entering a URL in the following box:
Organisation | Compliant? | HTML Version | Errors | Comments | Try It | |
1 | NEMLAC | N | Not defined | 31 errors | No DOCTYPE and no character encoding. | Check |
2 | Discovery Museum | N | XHTML 1.0 | 58 errors | Check | |
3 | Hexham Libraries | N | HTML 4 - defined twice in DTD | Multiple errors | Character encoding mismatch. | Check |
4 | Newcastle Library | N | Not defined | 10 errors | No DOCTYPE and no character encoding. | Check |
5 | Hartlepool Borough Libraries | N | Not defined | 16 errors | No DOCTYPE and no character encoding. | Check |
6 | Northumberland Record Office | Y | HTML 4 | 0 errors | Check | |
7 | Tyne & Wear Museums | N | XHTML 1.0 | 3 errors | Check | |
8 | Hadrian's Wall | N | HTML 4.0 | 8 errors | No DOCTYPE and no character encoding | Check |
The information in the table was collected on 10th September 2004.
Please note the following:
A summary of the findings is given below.
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