Re: HTML compliance

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr>]

OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du vendredi 10 août 2001, vers 18:03,
Generic Player <genericplayer2@home.com> disait:

> its w3c validated, upgrade your browser".  The w3c ignores the real
> world and makes up what it wants.  </img> tags being the most retarded
> example that comes to mind,

If it gives you this error, it is because you check your page against
XHTML. And yes, with XHTML, you need this closing tag (or a
self-closing tag).

With some initial efforts, it is very easy to become standard
compliant. Being compliant is allowing your pages to display nicely
with current and future browsers.

Having a compliant code is a big advantage : you can use many tools
that _need_ this compliance, like SGML tools. You can then develop
tools that can handle easily your code. How about a C compiler which
can works around missing parenthesis, unknown keywords and missing
informations ?