Validation of Internet Content helps to ensure that the web page display you have created looks the same regardless of what web browser is used to view your content. GATE Village provides CSS 2.1 validated pages and offers many Village Roles the ability to create XHTML 1.0 Transitional validated pages should they want.

It is all too easy to create web pages that only look beautiful when viewed with a specific subset of web browsers -- there are many proprietary features and functions available that allow for some very funky and beautiful web pages, but only using that particular vendor's browser. Most software vendors would have you use their proprietary features so as to try to hold onto or gain market share of the browser market.

Where once there was really only one dominant browser on the market, there are now many different web browsers used by significant portions of the Internet market. Only large corporations are still entrenched in Microsoft technology, small-to-medium businesses and home users are increasingly finding competitor browsers like Mozzila Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera useful and even smaller market browsers like Seamonkey and Konquerer can represent a large part of a company's market.

Standards are required to be able to handle such a diversity of web browsers (in fact, it is standards that encourages the compeition) and to ensure control over the final display, web pages should be written and validated to a standard.

Standards are also inherently out of date for the creation of even a new revision of a standard is a process that typically takes years! Thus sticking to a standard often means a loss of functionality, even functionality that would be in 99+% of the browsers visiting your site.

GATE Village offers you the choice, for each Information Object created you can use Input Filters that will help to ensure a validated page or you can use Input Filters that will allow you to use commonly available but non-standard features. And our Member Services can help you understand whether or not the feature you are interested in is or can be done in a standard way. Just ask!