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Posted by rf on 11/02/26 11:28
dorayme wrote:
>> From: rf <rf@invalid.com>
>>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>
>> [target attribute]
>>
>>> How bad is
>>> it to be not quite validated in this respect in your opinion?
>>
>> I'm not jake but I have an opinion.
>>
>> Validation is a tool, not an end in itself. You have made a concious
>> decision to use a single peice of HTML that is not valid to the DTD you
>> use. That's not bad at all IMHO. What *would* be bad is if you simply
>> ignored the validator entirely, which you don't.
>>
>> Also, being legacy code, near enough is good enough :-)
>
> OK Richard. I guess I was wanting to know if there were any
> practical consequences I should be worried about in the coming
> few months in respect to just this particular link...
>
> dorayme
You mean will a browser care? Well, no, browsers dont give a damn about
validation. You can throw every bit of deprecated transitional stuff you
can find at them and they will attempt to render it. You can even, as we
know, throw totally invalid stuff at them and some of them will still
render it.
Deprecated elements/attributes will be supported for a *long* time to come.
Microsoft aren't going to get rid of the height attributes they use in
their table cells any time soon and google will continue to use font
elements :-)
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Cheers
Richard.
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