Posted by Spartanicus on 12/13/06 00:25

Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

>> validation is only a tool that may be of some help to
>> beginners to discover basic syntax errors.
>
>Beginners aren't the only ones that might benefit from that. The only
>time I run my stylesheets through the validator these days is if I have
>a rendering problem and can't find the cause right away. The validator
>is handy for finding things like colons that should be semi-colons and
>other typos.

When I have a typo I am alerted to it by some CSS not working in my
browser, from what doesn't work a developer should know exactly where to
look in his code.

A CSS checker bot is useless for things like specificity issues, for
that there are tools like the DOM inspector.

CSS syntax checker bots have very limited uses, even if the errors
and/or messages they do and do not produce are correct and/or
appropriate, and don't confuse people (all of which they to often do). A
CSS checker bot is certainly not something that should be appeased.

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Spartanicus

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