On 11-08-09 03:37 PM, John Elliot wrote:
On 10/08/2011 6:53 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
I can't comprehend the obsession with killing de-facto standardized patterns just to shove a button on a site to a picky validator that only takes into account a single relevant standard.
One reason would be to help avoid embarrassments like this:
Embarrassing? You do realize that the validator is complaining that it sees `<ul></ul>`, right? I can't even find the spot in the HTML4 or XHTML1 spec where it says that a perfectly fine marked up list is invalid if it doesn't contain any items.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]