Posted by Dan on 11/02/04 11:58

Kevin Scholl wrote:
> Indeed. Shame, too, because it's a world that we as the developers have
> the power to change. Unfortunately, some are just too lazy to actually
> exercise that power.

And, contrary to what the other poster said, it should actually be
*easier* to have the big, complex, dynamically-generated sites validate
than the smaller ones where each page is hand-coded; all you'd have to
do is make sure to use correct code in the templates from which the
many pages of the site are generated, and then the validity would take
care of itself.

Wikipedia manages to (almost always) have valid code, because the
MediaWiki program is set up that way; editors can throw all sorts of
malformed stuff into the individual pages, but in nearly all cases it's
converted to perfectly standards-compliant code.

--
Dan

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