Why W3C Validation?

Question

At the time of no Flash and no AJAX, I used to validate all my sites with W3Cvalidator.
Nowadays, I have the choice: a working website (no bugs, no bad layout, all "a-ok") on IE7, Firefox, Opera and Netscape, but 20+ failures in validation, OR
Validated... but not working (sometimes not working at all!!)
What is the way forward?

Answer 1

all standards are meant to be bent!



flash, music, movies work different in each different browser, but they are all accessible via JavaScript.



code your flash


all the concepts are based on standards and usability, and minimalist coding, and AJAX!

Answer 2

W3C Validator is good to check if your site may be cross-compatible with the browsers, as you already stated.



You need to edit the code errors that they gave you to your liking, not to the fact that you do not like what happened anymore. They just merely give you suggestions as to what you should be doing with the code.



Ajax and Flash will mess up some of the W3C, so I guess sometimes there's not much way around that, unless you want to work hard and create more code to work it out.



I suggest just go with what you like. W3C is not a requirement, and if you feel your work's pretty good, I'd say, just go with what you want.

Answer 3

Well if you want something to work as it should in IE7, you need ie hacks aka non-standard code. Thats probebly the reason it won't validate.



And flash sucks.

Answer 4

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