[thelist] Validation > pressure on software companies??

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

I realize there might be some...valid...hehe..reasons for validation, but all I can say is I have
never ONCE validated a page I worked on professionally in 9 years. In the environment I work in
now, it is very much a software development skewed thing, more than a web thing. If I brought up
validating our pages here, it would get a good laugh and then we would all get back to work.

I don't say I'm for/against or whatever, just saying this is my experience to date.

Tom
--- Kostal Design|Sebastian Kostal <info at kostaldesign.de> wrote:
> Watching this list for a while I realized everybody thinks that validation
> is important.
>
> I've seen valid code that breaks on NN 4.5 Mac. So the validator seems to me
> no measure to assure correct page display.
>
> This leads me to the conclusion that the only reason validation makes sense,
> is to discipline software companies to stick to some standard. I am really
> not understanding this otherwhise.
>
> I personally clearly prefer a page that works and depreciates nicely over a
> page that sticks to some standard which causes display errors. Please help
> me to understand. I feel really funky, because everybody makes such a big
> deal about validation and then in some instances the page does not even
> display correctly! What's the point then??
>
> Sebastian


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