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Posted by Albert Wiersch on 08/13/07 17:18
"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
news:1187023948.600903.123310@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
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> If you want to see chaos, take a bunch of "typical" web developers
> (they code using 3.2 markup and think that <font> is still a "quick
> shortcut"). When they're trying to develop for mobile devices that
> start being fussy about valid markup, buy them a copy of CSE.
If they read all of CSE HTML Validator's messages, then it should help make
things clearer as it would state that "font" is deprecated in HTML 4.01 and
CSS should be used instead. But I understand that some people won't take the
time needed to really understand what's going on and won't want to read all
the informative messages.
I agree that if someone doesn't really know what they're doing, then they
may not get full benefit out of CSE HTML Validator (or many other programs
for that matter). But if they take the time to read the messages and
understand some basic things to start with, then I suspect they would find
CSE's output very useful.
> Now stand back and watch them try and dis-entangle real issues of real
> validity from the usual "lint" that's reported by CSE. They'll not
> _understand_ what's going on, which means they can't progress beyond
> this.
From a practical standpoint, I don't believe it is important for most people
to understand technical validity. Most people just want their pages to work
and to fix problems that visitors might run into. Besides, strict technical
validity is no guarantee of a problem-free document, and is often
over-emphasized (in my opinion), especially in alt.html. And many find
technically validity in itself quite confusing (and understandable so!).
But for those who just care about technical validity and little else, CSE
HTML Validator doesn't make as much sense (though it could still be useful
by providing an easy to use interface to a DTD based validator that doesn't
require online access to use - as well as providing some other functions
like batch validation and link checking).
This message was longer than I intended!
Albert
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