Yeah, that's the way it used to be: you make a web page, and check around every browser and make sure it looks okay. But if you obey web standards set by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a>, you're helping the strive for a brighter future of the internet by following the rules, so that HTML rendering is no longer a guessing game, and something that is defined solidly. Plus, valid XML is required for many things, like JavaScript's DOMParser. <p>Yeah, that's the way it used to be: you make a web page, and check around every browser and make sure it looks okay. But if you obey web standards set by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a>, you're helping the strive for a brighter future of the internet by following the rules, so that HTML rendering is no longer a guessing game, and something that is defined solidly.</p> <p>Plus, valid XML is required for many things, like JavaScript's DOMParser.</p> 2008-11-25T20:36:04Z 3 Forum 80107 18168 2008-12-16T05:46:59Z 61251