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01-14-2006, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferrarislave

I agree validators are poop. I use them only when I have a serious problem, they help me only then. If the site works and looks fine, why bother?

Agree

01-14-2006, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by adiboy

Agree

Do you check them in:

IE5
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla
Opera

? Because if it is web valid you can be 99% sure it will be in all of these

01-14-2006, 11:21 AM

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I don't agree that validators are poop. They are very handy and show if you code html correctly or not.

Lot of people code sloppy.

01-14-2006, 02:08 PM

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There are several reasons valid code and standards compliance are very important. Here are a few links that discuss it.

http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/ar...ds_trifle.html
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presenta...fits/index.htm
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/Web-Quality
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/#p3

As an instructor I don't allow my students to hand me invalid code, I have failed projects that looked great but were invalid non-standards compliant, non-accessibility complient projects.

01-14-2006, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Techno

Do you check them in:

IE5
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla
Opera

? Because if it is web valid you can be 99% sure it will be in all of these

Where's Safari? You're not going to cater for 99% without it!

01-14-2006, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Salathe

Where's Safari? You're not going to cater for 99% without it!

Well he can cater to at least 97% of it... lol

PS: As a coder - Safari is very frustrating, it has more quirks than any other browser, even Opera.

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01-14-2006, 04:56 PM

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For example, 6% of visitors to one of my sites are on Safari. To be quite honest I'd rather not ignore 1 in every 16 visitors just because it's not a 'major browser'. Interestingly, on said site I have 18 times more Safari visitors than Opera. (All figures from Google Analytics)

01-14-2006, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Salathe

They where just off the top of my head, being a Windows user and never using a Mac, i've never come accross it.