Posted by Mark Parnell on 12/24/17 11:28

In our last episode, rf <rf@invalid.com> pronounced to alt.html:

> Validation is a tool, not an end in itself. You have made a concious
> decision to use a single peice of HTML that is not valid to the DTD you
> use. That's not bad at all IMHO. What *would* be bad is if you simply
> ignored the validator entirely, which you don't.

I'll second that.

> Also, being legacy code, near enough is good enough :-)

Especially if you (dorayme) are in the process of removing the frames -
once that is complete, you can remove the target attribute anyway.

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Mark Parnell
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