Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 12/16/05 11:40

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jim Higson wrote:

> Since standards compliant browsers ignore rules they doesn't
> understand anyway, this seems like validation for
> it's own sake.
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There's something in what you say. But if your documents are full of
deliberate non-standard items, you practically lose the ability to use
the validators and checkers for finding non-deliberate errors.

I got myself into just that position only yesterday, in putting ruby
annotation into what was otherwise a valid HTML/4.01 Strict document.
And did just what I'm warning about - at first I missed a real mistake
in the markup. (At least in this situation one could validate against
a custom DTD, and if I decided to go seriously into that, it's what I
would do. But for a one-off hack...)

cheers


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