Validation - the beginning not the end

Phil Ringnalda discovers that validation forms only a part of HTML quality control.

Validation can only check for some of the rules of HTML syntax, the DTD allows such nonsense as a paragraph contained inside another paragraph, so long as you <ins>ert it, and its just as possible to claim <p>1</p> is a paragraph.

This is another reason why a decent knowledge of HTML is important when writing HTML, using a so-called WYSIWYG editor and then using the validator to clean up its output without that knowledge doesn't usually cut it.

Posted at May 2, 2004 11:32 AM (TrackBack)