On 11-08-09 03:37 PM, John Elliot wrote: > On 10/08/2011 6:53 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: >> I can't comprehend the obsession with killing de-facto standardized >> patterns just to shove a button on a site to a picky validator that only >> takes into account a single relevant standard. > One reason would be to help avoid embarrassments like this: > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://en.wikipedia.org Embarrassing? You do realize that the validator is complaining that it sees `<ul></ul>`, right? I can't even find the spot in the HTML4 or XHTML1 spec where it says that a perfectly fine marked up list is invalid if it doesn't contain any items.
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