Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 09/15/06 04:32

On 2006-09-14, Runnin' on Empty wrote:
>
> Also. well you get the picture, I guarantee that this "website" will not
> validate.
>
> Why not? Because much of the "Front End" HTML and CSS is generated by
> automated process that are impossible to vet to clean code. For instance the
> Amazon data will generate HTML tables that may or may not be in balance
> depending on how many record sets a query returns, hence no validation for
> the HTML.

There is no reason that generated HTML should not validate. One of
my pages <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/ttc/> even takes invalid html
from an external site and fixes it so that it does validate.

There are still some pages on my site that do not validate; I am
fixing those as I have time.

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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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