Re: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

> And valid HTML will render correctly in all of those. Where, once
> again, is the problem with the existing site?

I agree with sticking to some standards.  That said, what *is* valid 
HTML?  I test my code against w3c's 4.01 transitional validator.  That 
means my code is valid according to their recommendations, but what make 
their recommendations a standard?  (That is only a question, though it 
sounds like a statement.)

I've been thinking about how Internet Explorer has a few extensions that 
other browsers don't support.  Is that bad?  The answer that I came up 
with is that it is not bad as long as it doesn't cause a failure when 
using another browser.  If the extensions are worth anything they might 
become part of the standard.  Until then we could test the code against 
a known set of recommendations and/or do our own testing with different 
browsers to see what actually works and what doesn't work.

Once or twice I had to use some code that the validator didn't like to 
make something work, and it worked in a variety of browsers.


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