structure and semantics influence how the page looks. One browser may overlook a missing </TABLE> and show the page and another may not. validating will show where you may have gone wrong. Writing "good" HTML is good practice :) berber -----Original Message----- From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:44 PM To: WeberSites LTD Cc: 'Stut'; ceo@xxxxxxxxx; 'Lester Caine'; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Articles system On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 21:42 +0200, WeberSites LTD wrote: > 1st, I never said I was any authority about anything :) I'm just > building the weber sites as a hobby... > > 2nd, I beg to disagree. Validation has allot to do with how pages > look. In many cases, if you have differences between browsers, or if > things don't look like you expect, validating the page solves the > problem. Nope, (X)HTML validation is about structure and semantics. It cares not for whether your page is being rendered in FF, Opera, IE, Lynx, etc. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | a | powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | such as | forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php