Time and time again: - If you serve an HTML doctype as text/html (and you really should use HTML Strict to avoid getting quirks mode in browsers like IE), then validation isn't necessary, because you are relying on the SGML parser with all of it's wonderful error correction to fix your mistakes when the page is rendered. Even so, if you wonder why your CSS is not working or your DOM scripting fails, then validating the HTML is a good place to start. - If you serve an XHTML doctype as text/html, well, don't. - If you serve an XHTML doctype as application/xhtml+xml, then your question would be, "why doesn't my page display at all?" And the answer would be, validate.
On 7/9/06, Shlomi Asaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
thank you so much for all your data and information guys. two more links that i dont know if someone putted it in here (forgive me if i doubble pasting links) : 1. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/march-to-your-own-standard
Ugh, let's all start posting links to innaccurate articles that only serve to mislead people and give the finger to web standards and the W3C... on the WSG list, no less. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
