Re: Form action= ?

On 8/14/2010 3:38 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Indeed. But many people want to validate due to some external
requirement. They don't understand the reasons for the requirement
(maybe there isn't one), and they don't even understand the content of
the requirement; they just want to "pass validation", or get a "clean
report".

As I have observed many times over the years "There is no reason. It's just policy."

Most likely someone implemented the requirement as a metric, without understanding any of the implications. Similar to "lines of code per day" as a metric for programmers.

Theoretically yes, but in practice, browsers don't use DTDs. Some
browsers have validation add-ons, but they don't affect the rendering.

I didn't really expect that browsers used DTDs in real time, but I would guess that programmers use them when they are designing the code, even if not when the code is run.

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