memesplice wrote:
Thank you Stuart google has told me it has registered my site!! !! !! !
In Sandvox there are all these boxes next to the page . They say put meta tags here. Shall I put them in , like " prints "
Can I cause havoc if they are wrong?
I do not know what Sandvox is, so I do not know what "like prints" means. But in general, if you do not use a correct character encoding, then most browsers will default to something sensible like utf8 and display the page exactly as you intended (unless you meant to use displayed accents, Greek, Hewbrew etc). If you do not use a correct html version string then again the browser will probably do something sensible - e.g. if you use html version 3 codes but declare html version 4, then most things will work as expected. For instance, all tags must be in lower case in html 4, but I don't think any browsers care.
However, web search engines might not be so fault tolerant. For instance, they could require an image tag to be closed, and ignore any text apparently inside the image tag - old html was happy with <img> but new html requires <img></img>, abbreviated to <img />.
If you use a valid document type from
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html and validate the pages, then you will soon find any problems.
11 Mar 2010, 3:51 am
