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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Stefan Goodchild
<stefan.goodchild at realworld.co.uk> wrote:
> Jeff Croft has posted about validation...
>
>  http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2008/feb/24/your-markup-validator/
>
>  "Your markup validator [...] is not a measuring stick for greatness.
>  It's not to be used on other people's code for the purpose of pointing
>  out their shortcomings as a markup coder so that you can make yourself
>  feel better than them. [...]. There is almost never a good reason for
>  you to be validating someone else's code. Usually, if you're
>  validating someone else's code, it's because you're being an asshole"

He just likes being controversial ;)

>  So are we just a bunch of a[rse]holes then?

Nope, because very often it's the validation errors that either cause,
or hide, the issue that help is being requested to fix. If you do
unsolicited validation (hands up: I've done it), then that's different
and probably closer to what Jeff said.

Tim