status o' the day

[Karen G. Schneider]

First of all, I think what Tom Dowling did was terrific.  And I don't want
to think about some of the klunkers on our own pages. And the point is very
well taken--I for one will put myself into remedial validation mode.

I have to say that one thing I do knowing it is wrong is embed tags
inappropriately.  But may I humbly ask the master, if "<h1><b>Really</b>
Important Header</h1> doesn't work," does that mean you know it breaks all
browsers or that it just ain't right, HTML-wise?  By the way, I'll also buy
"it works now, but like the comments issue you will get a nasty surprise
one or two HTML versions from now when HTML is less tolerant of that
error."  Not that I would embed a bold tag in a H1 header... but I would
and do embed break tags inside other tags, and a few other baddies.

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