Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/06/44 11:48

On 23 May 2006 06:28:06 -0700, "Travis Newbury"
<TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Depends if the page looks ok without it, and you don't care about
>validation then you don't "need" it

Totally the wrong attitude.

Pages, even the worst, rarely "look wrong" for their original author, or
else they'd fix them. The point about validation is that it's objective,
so that those of us using vaguely standards-aware browsers can still
read pages that were authored by IE-users.

Of course pathological use of incredible <font> sizes and absolute
positioning can still break anything that doesn't have the exact screen
resolution of a WebTV, but that's trailer parks for you...

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