Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 09/15/06 22:44

On 2006-09-15, Runnin' on Empty wrote:
>
> "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....

Then ignore the example. The statement still stands:

There is no reason that generated HTML should not validate.
(Unless the generator is incompetent or is not aware of the
standards or the validator tool.)


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