At 5/23/08 11:18 AM, Seachmall wrote:
If your using your site to promote your work it should be valid. Odds are if an employer has visited your site they have visited other sites which promote valid markup. I you can't replicate that promise you've lost a customer. Plain and simple.
See, on that point, I'd strongly disagree. If someone goes shopping on portfolios, some will have "Valid HTML" some won't. Just because they see it on one, doesn't neccesarily mean they'll look for it on the others. You have to understand that if someone's shopping for a web designer...they most likely have no idea what the hell they're doing or looking for. They want someone else to take care of it.
we see it as every new browser is released they are closer to conforming, in a few years all browsers my be 90%+ conformity, if that happens your site will break in all browser if its not up to standard. Its an insurance to minimise the amount of redesigns needed.
I'd love to see that. If all browsers started conforming more, it would be great. I write valid code myself, and I hate it when I have to use a tage that "isn't supported", such as embed...which doesn't have a feasible alternative. However, I've been hearing that kind of statistic for a few years now...Firefox 2 and IE7 were supposed to be the closest we've gotten, but I haven't noticed much change at all, except a few things from IE6-IE7.
I also hope everyone realizes that this is just a friendly debate to me...I don't mean to come off as an arrogant jackass or anything.