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1. Re: Image Map Error in IE
MurraySummers Aug 2, 2012 4:32 AM (in response to Jack)The first thing to do is to fix the validation errors on the page -
Some are much more troubling than others but all are important. Can you do that? Fixing them will likely take care of your IE issues too (the duplicate alt attributes in your image map).
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2. Re: Image Map Error in IE
Jack Aug 2, 2012 5:36 PM (in response to MurraySummers)Many thanks. Had forgotten about that resource, big help. Fixing errors cleared all problems. Actually, DW-CS4 was partly at fault, by appearing to be prompting for the extra "ALT" tags.
Tried validating a WordPress site of interest, and was overwhelmed with css errors. What is the possible impact of all those issues? I'm guessing, potential for improper rendering? Or could it be that the W3 standards are a bit dated?
In real terms, what can one expect, if the default behavior induces all those errors? Short of a time-consuming trial-and-error process of elimnating/applying one style over another, the user has little control over this.
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3. Re: Image Map Error in IE
MurraySummers Aug 3, 2012 6:09 AM (in response to Jack)Tried validating a WordPress site of interest, and was overwhelmed with css errors. What is the possible impact of all those issues? I'm guessing, potential for improper rendering? Or could it be that the W3 standards are a bit dated?
Most likely the errors were caused by the validator being flummoxed by CSS3 usages. Since CSS3 is NOT yet a standard, even though most browsers support many of the styles, this is what happens.
My goal is to code in such a way that the page's HTML validates. That way, when I do have a layout problem, I can immediately eliminate coding errors easily by validating. When I know that my baseline code is valid, this makes it easy. If I start with this process on a page that has 100 validation errors to begin with, there's too much chaff to easily find the wheat, doncha know.
I scan through the CSS errors and warnings to eliminate those that are "intentional", but my CSS code is usually pretty clean so I don't worry too much about that.


