Posted by Ed Mullen on 02/01/07 19:49

newspost2000 wrote:
> This may seem like a silly question of which I already feel like I
> know the answer... I am a web developer and I am working with a
> Content Manager... I am trying to convince him why he should validate
> all of the html code that he writes as he publishes content to his
> Company's Site. This could be done by running pages through HTML
> Validator or HTML Tidy. He feels that if his pages render as he would
> expect through Firefox and IE, even if there are some missing closing
> tags or deprecated tags... that at least the browsers are forgiving
> enough so that it will not affect the presentation. He feels that
> validating the code will actually slow down his development and
> deployment time of content.
>
> I argue that it is really a method of best practices and it will
> further ensure the integrity of the code that it will work in an
> optimum inter operable way between OS's and different Browser Types
> for generations to come. I also argue that it should actually speed up
> development and deployment of content time because these tools can act
> as a pointer when your design is broken and you don't know why. I am
> looking to produce a more robust argument in order to get him on side.
>
> Can anyone out there give me other valid reasons that I can take back
> to him?
>

Might want to take a look at this:

http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html

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