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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam D. Ruppe" < destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 13:33:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> But whatever I try to validate it as, there are errors.
>
> Does validation make any positive difference at all?
>
> I used to do it, but it prohibits things that are useful
> and work fine in practice* without offering much, if anything,
> in return.
>
> I've found that checking for well-formedness - that your tags
> are closed, attributes quoted, and entities encoded - is worth
> it, but the structure imposed by the doctype offers almost no
> help.
>
> * An example being custom attributes. The html5 validator will
> allow some of them, but the other ones won't.

I've come to figure the same thing. I like to keep things as compliant as I 
can within reason, but I've been wondering more and more how strict it's 
really worthwhile to be.

For example, I have an articles section on my site that (currently) uses 
TangoCMS. I neither know nor care what doctype TangoCMS is sending out (and 
I have even less interest in mucking with it's internals to change it), and 
yet when I want to bold or italicize something in a post, I've started going 
back to <b> and <i>. Why?

A. They're not as insanely verbose as <span style="font-weight: bold; 
font-style: italic"> (And they're much, MUCH easier to remember: Is it 
"text" or "font"? Is it "-bold", "-weight", "-italic", "-style", "-slant", 
"-skew" or some nonstandard made-up term like "text?/font?-decoration: 
line-through"? Who has *ever* called that anything but strikeout?). Or even 
<span class="bold"> (And even at that I'd have to go out of my way to go 
grab and mess with the CSS files).

B. It works. On everything.

C. Let's face it, it's always going to work.

D. I don't give a rat's ass about the purity of HTML "content" vs style. 
(X)HTML *is* presentation if you ask me: the content is in the model, and 
that's stored in a DB, not XML files. And it all renders the same anyway. 
And seriously, who's going to be applying a custom stylesheet to my pages? 
(and if they do, they can just change the defined styles for b{} and i{}).

E. The W3C can kiss my ass ;)