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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mar 7, 2006 10:50AM

> There are more things that access web content than just web
> browsers. Do any of them REQUIRE valid markup? Other than RSS
> readers and XML parsers, I don't know. Still, that's not a
> reason to purposely make invalid markup when a valid
> alternative works just as well.

That's just the point. The knee-jerk reaction is to ridicule a
non-standard approach rather than actually determine what the facts are.


Ridicule: "I prefer the <chicken> tag myself"
Fact-seeking: "<spacer> is not valid and as far as I can tell is only
supported in some older versions of Netscape. What have you found that
makes you think it is better?"

I'm not trying to promote invalid code, just more respectful responses.

AWK