- From: Michael Adams <linux_mike@paradise.net.nz>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:43:52 +1200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:49:36 +0000 Mark Birbeck wrote: > > >> That's what most of the world is doing, after all. > > > > > > > > Most of the world is throwing tag soup about with graphical HTML > > > generators and string substitution. XML tools aren't involved all > > > that often. > > I don't think so...not any more. Even blogging software is checking > your posts for well-formedness nowadays. Add to that, that most pages > are generated using server-side tools, and you'll find that most > web-pages would be acceptible XHTML if it wasn't for this MIME type > issue. > I don't agree with that sorry: o CMS's like Joomla still haven't progressed beyond XHTML 1.0 transitional. (Font tags and Tables abound) o Google and Yahoo ads don't validate. o Yahoo sites have non validating code in them. No fault of the author. o Google don't care about valid code. What i'm saying is, if you build your sites from a mix of sources Tag soup is still the norm. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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