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From: Joe Clark
Date: Mar 10, 2006 2:00PM

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>Patrick Lauke wrote:
>>I prefer the <chicken> tag myself...as it's just as invalid as
>><spacer> (unless I'm missing it in the official HTML 4 element
>>index <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html>;)
>
>[...] Sneering down at her for not using valid code just makes this
>list a hostile place that makes developers like Ava less likely to
>engage. Is your own site valid and free of elements and attributes
>that aren't in the official recommendation?

If it comes from Lauke, the answer's gonna be yes. And he wasn't
sneering. Anyone on this list should expect to be corrected when they
propose using nonstandard "HTML."
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