Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Bible

25.5. Using Compatibility Reports

While the Accessibility Checker looks for inconsistencies with the Web site's accessibility, the Compatibility Checker allows you to check whether your Web content is compatible with a particular browser version or schema, XHTML, CSS version, or Document Type Declaration on the page.

25.5.1. Working with the Compatibility Checker

You can access the Compatibility Checker by choosing Tools Compatibility Reports. As shown in Figure 25.7, the Compatibility Checker allows you to choose a version of HTML, XHTML, or browser scheme and then validates the documents against that version. It checks for incompatible tags, attributes, and other implementations on the Web pages of a Web site.

You can also choose a version of CSS that you want to check compatibility against. The Compatibility Checker is particularly useful in situations where you're designing against a particular schema or version and want to ensure that your content correctly renders in the chosen version.

NOTE

The errors that appear in the Compatibility Report generated by SharePoint Designer don't always mean that the Web pages on which these errors appear are useless. These errors are an indication that the code doesn't completely match the chosen schema, and the browser might switch to a backward-compatibility mode to render the component. A number of SharePoint Designer components might ...