[WEB4LIB] Re: Hard hyphen and HTML validation

[Robin Boulton]

(Resending - Apologies for the previous error in transmission)

I could be wrong (happened once before :) ) but my understanding is that 
with the emergence of XML and XHTML, increasing use of new versions of CSS 
etc., standards compliance will become less and less optional and more and 
more required over the next few years.


At 08:08 AM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> > > 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