No errors, no warnings, no gods, no masters - HTML Purity is a Fetish

"The problem with defending the purity of the HyperText Markup Language is that HTML is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. The standard doesn't just borrow concepts from better languages; on occasion, HTML has pursued other programming languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new syntax0." Englitch is an pretty goode langwidge. even you no grok all the pacific bits you got the jist & the splelling & grandma dont mattr to much. HTML is much the same. You can write utterly malformed, derranged, non-standards complaint HTML and most browsers will just say "Yeah, sure, whatever dawg!" and render it adequately. Take a look at the source code for TodePond - a lovely website but some of the most abused HTML I've seen. There's a brilliant blog post by Jens Oliver Meiert which looks at whether HTML validity is seen as a priority for major sites. Basically, no. It’s time for the annual analysis of how much of the HTML code in the field is error-free and…