The latest version of BBEdit, the Macintosh source editor, includes an SGML parser so you can validate your HTML. I’m a RFC-hugging standards bigot. So when I read this review, I laughed.
It can be beneficial to run your pages through a syntax checker, but it can also be maddening. In many cases, BBEdit 5′s syntax checker will mark errors on a page that displays perfectly in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is because Web browsers are far more forgiving of Web authors’ errors than is the HTML specification. In addition, some common tag placement tricks that improve the appearance of HTML pages in one or both browsers are unsupported by the specification.
Yeah, I know it’s so damned important to use the latest Spiegelisms in your web pages. Thus, the poor coders in Mountain View and Redmond have to add megabytes of code to the latest revisions of their browsers so that they don’t break on lame table and single pixel gif hacks.
Designers must embrace the Internet Robustness principle. Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you recieve.
Hint: use CSS.
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