[WEB4LIB] Re: Hard hyphen and HTML validation

[Raymond Wood]

> > Dan Lester blithely spake:
> > > I'm sure that this will be heresy to some purists, but why not just
> > > ignore those validation errors?  It isn't a perfect world, and those
> > > are things beyond your control, so why worry?

> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Drew, Bill wrote:
> > I agree with Dan on this.  What is more important, validation or a working
> > web link?  The links also work in Lynx as is.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:44:37AM -0800, Chris Gray remarked:
> If everyone followed standards (including browsers and HTML editors) then
> this sort of problem would cease to exist (except as bugs not features)
> and that would save us all the kind of time and trouble we're devoting to
> them.  The more we use, support, and insist on standards the sooner that
> day will come.  In the meantime, granted, sometimes you have to go with
> what works if it conflicts with a standard, but we should all complain
> loudly when we do and not make having to put up with it into a virtue.
> 
> Chris Gray

Hear hear -- well spoken!

Cheers,
Raymond