Mark McDonnell wrote: > My client works for the South-East Council and they have to have the > W3C validation icons displayed on the site as they are a council > organisation. Does some higher authority require a) validity or b) display of W3C validation icons? The former requirement is a bit formalistic, but understandable, whereas the latter (especially when not combined with the former! :-) ) is outright clueless. The icons are just distracting crap to users; for more info, check http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html#icon > But no matter how much I explain to them that the above > two problems will not affect users in any way they refuse to listen > to reason. Well, your explanations are not reasonable then. Apparently you didn't even know why the validator the issued the warnings, so how could you know something far more complicated like the _total_ effect of the constructs that triggered them? By "total", I mean the effect across browsers and browsing situations now and in the future. > I don't know if the W3C offers the helpful service of lets > say emailing me with words of the effect of "our validator is no > substitute for real world user testing"? Probably not. But I can hereby email you that your guess on the effects of invalid constructs is no substitute for real world user testing _or_ for validation. Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Received on Saturday, 2 February 2008 08:52:07 UTC
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