"Proper" HTML (was Re: status o' the day)

[Michael Reagan]

On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Tim Tripp wrote:

> Should I care?  I've got far too much to do to spend time worrying about
> "bad" coding that's not going to make a lick of difference.

I am trying to encourage colleagues to use HTML grammar checkers 
precisely because it is so easy to make the jump from "it looks fine 
in Netscape (on this PC, with this version of Windows 3.11 and my 
choice of fonts, etc.)" to "it's not going to make a lick of difference."

We've seen, as has been pointed out in this thread before, code that 
looked fine turn to mush when the browser came out with a new 
edition.  I tell my workshop participants to code the content 
consistently, so that the pages will look good, albeit different, when 
handed over to the next generation of browsers.  It may not be sexy, 
but following the rules will produce pages that don't turn into a 
nightmare revision task next year.

More of my humble opinions are available at 
http://www.csun.edu/~mreagan/

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