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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: May 25, 2003 Why is validation so neglected? -- "To support my point… Would you buy or live in a house in which the foundation did not meet building codes? Of course not… it puts the contents of that residence at risk." (Comments: Most developers don't realize that validation can be a direct reflection of business logic. Just recently I had conversation with a person for an hour about a single field because that field represented the core rule that was driving the entire transaction.)
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Why bother? Clients are happy. Customers are happy, except ones driving Model T's. I've got my money and another feather in my cap. Validation doesn't get me jobs. If no one but me cares, why should I care? I don't. And everything works out in the end. Ha ha. Posted by: on May 25, 2003 10:44 AM
Would you buy or live in a house in which the foundation did not meet building codes? Get over yourselves. There's a massive difference between building codes and valid HTML. Building codes keep people from dying. Non-validating HTML only pisses off the developers, but there is very little business cost associated with non-valid markup. A business has to be nearly perfect everywhere else before they should spend a few bucks to make sure their HTML validates. Posted by: on May 26, 2003 04:14 PM
Thi sissue will only be resolved when the web standards bodies produce validation suites like the ones for full-strength programming languages (e.g. C++). Then browser developers will have no excuse for the idiosyncracies which force web programmers and the developers of WYSIWYG editors to produce non-validating hacks for browser bugs. Posted by: Philip Chalmers on May 27, 2003 06:27 PM
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