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Invalid HTML in Google's Homepage

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Invalid HTML in Google’s Homepage

When validating my homepage /me got 1Error and 1warning, was curious to paw more!

w3.org validator says : 37 Errors, 2 warning(s) on validation of google.com! Edit 1 : It says : 39 Errors, 2 warning(s) /me loves reading obfuscated code, with javascript in view on of the most obfuscated code can be found in the source pages of google pages, may it be gmail, g+ or even their 404 page! It’s fun reading it.

But for my shock here are the list of errors that was found in google.com

Including errors like :

  • Attribute width not allowed on element div at this point.
  • The center element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.
  • The clear attribute on the br element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. Many more
  • End of file seen and there were open elements!!
  • Unclosed element center!!

List of other sites that failed :

  • facebook.com 41 Errors
  • twitter.com 2 Errors, 1 warning(s)
  • firefox.com 1 Error, 1 warning(s)
  • wikipedia.org 5 Errors, 24 warning(s) Stopped after that! Some of them that passed :
  • Opera.com
  • gnu.org
  • stallman.org Yes indeed the HTML5 parser is rapidly changing and this stats might be wrong sooner, but just for some study this data was collected and shared!__
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About Hemanth HM

Hemanth HM is a Sr. Machine Learning Manager at PayPal, Google Developer Expert, TC39 delegate, FOSS advocate, and community leader with a passion for programming, AI, and open-source contributions.