Posted by Runnin' on Empty on 09/15/06 15:26

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8vmpt3-qic.ln1@xword.teksavvy.com...
> 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.
>
> --
>

That's not even a close example of what I was describing....

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