|  | Posted by Simon on 06/14/05 16:32 
> "Simon" <spambucket@myoddweb.com> wrote:>
 >> I know that a site that validates is a good site, because it
 >> follows the rules given by W3c.
 >
 > If you think so, you do not know what validation is. For an
 > explanation, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html
 
 personally I prefer the details given by w3c themselves.
 http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.htm
 
 > (Validation does not imply that W3C rules are followed. Neither does
 > it, or following the rules, imply that the site is a good one. As a
 > trivial proof of the latter non sequitur, consider a site that consists
 > of a single HTML document that fully conforms to HTML specification and
 > has an empty body, say <body><div></div></body>.)
 
 Of course it implies that rules are followed.
 It might not look good, or even be useful, but the rules are followed.
 
 > CSS is not an SGML or XML application, so "validation" is an
 > incorrect/misleading word in that context.
 
 Again , w3c seems to believe that is a validation. They even offer a tool to
 achieve it.
 
 >
 > (And what makes you think validation costs money, as you suggest in the
 > Subject line but fail to explain or even mention in the message body?)
 
 What I was trying to imply is that a good, 'valid' page would cost more to
 develop rather that one put together by a student with limited knowledge of
 dreamweaver.
 Is spending the extra money to validate really worth it.
 
 Simon
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