Tim Marinin wrote:
Is there, in your opinion, real value from writing only valid code?
Yes. Writing valid code is the only way of knowing that your material renders as you wish by design rather than by chance.
Browsers did great job at making web accept almost everything.
Whence the ubiquity of tag soup.
You can even don't write <html>, <head> and <body> tags, and all browsers will render good.
Just as it is possible to express oneself in less than perfect English and still hope to be understood. But the fact that browsers, and most human beings, are so forgiving is no reason not to /try/ to write formally correct HTML or to write grammatically correct English.
So, that's the point of spending time to fixing all errors from validators? Besides „my-code-is-super-valid“ ego.
See response 1, above : so that you can have confidence that your material renders as you wish by design rather than by chance. If you write invalid code, it may render as you wish today, in the browser(s) in which you test it, on the platform(s) on which you test it, at the screen resolutions (etc) at which you test it. And tomorrow, when the wind blows from a different direction, it may render completely differently. If, however, you expend a little effort in ensuring that you write only /valid/ code, then if it renders today as you would wish, there is an /extremely/ high probability that it will continue to render correctly tomorrow, and the day after, and on other browsers/platforms, and at other resolutions (etc) ...
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