<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 December 2010 01:28, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>HTML 5 does not require that. Just an FYI, but XHTML is beating a dead<br>
horse at this point. I would not consider validation to be, well,<br>
valid anymore.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I completely disagree. </div><div><br></div><div>Javascript works a lot better with valid HMTL, so does CSS. By which I mean some invalid HMTL will break both CSS styling and JavaScript functionality. So to dismiss validation as worthless ("not valid any more") is ill advised.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, HTML 5 is *not yet supported* across the board, and will not be for quite a while. XHTML is not dead, it *is supported* by all the newest browsers in their 'best' mode (not quirks).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div>-- </div></div>Mike Little<br><a href="http://zed1.com/">http://zed1.com/</a><br><br>