On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:21:32 -0700, Alan Gresley wrote:
(Re: the use of invalid CSS)
>
> What my concern is that other CSS user may copy parts of this, potentially 
> morphing
> itself around the various mailing list and forums and result in new user of 
> CSS who use
> these hack not understanding what is going on in there page when they may 
> have some
> invalid declaration within the rule set. The whole rule set is thrown out by 
> the
> validator so the errors within one declaration that could be the cause of 
> their page
> problem does not be parsed thus not reported as an error.
>

Yes. You are quite right, Alan.

While "breaking the rules" may be okay for those who know the reasons
behind the rules, it was unwise of me to suggest this idea as generally
okay.

It's also true that beginners have a hard enough time understanding
the validator error messages as it is.

Thank you for pointing this out.

Cordially,
David
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