Well, no one can be positive they can parse your site. OK. Who cares? I'd only want someone parsing my site to get it to be more easily placed into search engines, right? I mean if I want to expose a part of my data, the correct method to use there is something like RSS, or an API which more carefully governs that communication. I mean, it seems to me that if I spent as much time blogging as it would take to make my site valid, I would have achieved a better net result via blogging. I would do more to promote my site; for a longer term; and I would be able to provide some meaningful context....not just ease the parsing. And to be frank, I believe there is value in making parsing difficult. Like many sites, mine is set up to communicate with a human eyeball...not some text parsing engine. Since I already know that won't impact my ability to be included in Google (whereas blogging will most certainly help in that regard), I'm done wasting my time with it.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
HTML Validation
Well, SoarPort does not come up clean on an HTML validator. At first, I was quite disappointed. Then I ran Google, Microsoft, YouTube, and Yahoo. They all failed. Google had 62 errors...62! So what's the point is the websites that drive the internet don't validate?
Well, no one can be positive they can parse your site. OK. Who cares? I'd only want someone parsing my site to get it to be more easily placed into search engines, right? I mean if I want to expose a part of my data, the correct method to use there is something like RSS, or an API which more carefully governs that communication. I mean, it seems to me that if I spent as much time blogging as it would take to make my site valid, I would have achieved a better net result via blogging. I would do more to promote my site; for a longer term; and I would be able to provide some meaningful context....not just ease the parsing. And to be frank, I believe there is value in making parsing difficult. Like many sites, mine is set up to communicate with a human eyeball...not some text parsing engine. Since I already know that won't impact my ability to be included in Google (whereas blogging will most certainly help in that regard), I'm done wasting my time with it.
Well, no one can be positive they can parse your site. OK. Who cares? I'd only want someone parsing my site to get it to be more easily placed into search engines, right? I mean if I want to expose a part of my data, the correct method to use there is something like RSS, or an API which more carefully governs that communication. I mean, it seems to me that if I spent as much time blogging as it would take to make my site valid, I would have achieved a better net result via blogging. I would do more to promote my site; for a longer term; and I would be able to provide some meaningful context....not just ease the parsing. And to be frank, I believe there is value in making parsing difficult. Like many sites, mine is set up to communicate with a human eyeball...not some text parsing engine. Since I already know that won't impact my ability to be included in Google (whereas blogging will most certainly help in that regard), I'm done wasting my time with it.
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