Google has said many times that poor or invalid HTML validation doesn't impact rankings. Of course, web sites that don't work, a search engine cannot crawl. But if your site works but doesn't validate ...

With HTML forms submissions today, web developers typically must use JavaScript to ensure values are provided when required and are within appropriate ranges and types. HTML5 offers form field ...

The internet of old was a vibrant bazaar. It was noisy, chaotic, and offbeat. Every click brought you somewhere new, sometimes unpredictable, letting you uncover curiosities you hadn’t even known to ...

Writing code to validate Web-form input can be even more of a chore than implementing form-processing logic. But help is at hand, thanks to the Struts 2 framework. Oleg Mikheev looks under the hood of ...

Many top websites have invalid homepage HTML, yet still rank well. Machine-readable elements must be accurate, even if the rest of the HTML isn’t. SEO success depends on user-focused strategy, not ...

A recent tweet from Google’s Gary Illyes called attention to problem of invalid HTML. Google is fine with invalid HTML. Less well known is that there are negative outcomes associated with invalid HTML ...

When Google updated their Webmaster Guidelines yesterday, one of the changed was changes was around valid HTML. Before it read, "Check for broken links and correct HTML." and now it reads "Ensure that ...

We say that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and that's certainly true. But, we can boil the Web down to three specific technologies: URLs (for uniquely identifying resources on the ...