Re: html validation: exactly what is it good for?

"Navjot Pawera" <navjotpawera@gmail.com> wrote:

[on validation]

>Just to put practical reasons that might make sense to you:
>1. valid code would mean you test in lesser browsers
>2. valid code would mean your website works in future versions as well
>3. valid code would mean your website is accessible by maximum set of users
>over the internet (consider that missing out on even 1% of the users would
>effectively mean closing doors to millions of users everyday)
>4. valid code would mean internet bots/spiders know how to read your website
>properly

Abject nonsense on every single point.

Some clues for the OP:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html

Btw, I'd consider this question off topic here. Please take this
discussion to an appropriate place like the
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html newsgroup, follow-up set.

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