Re: Site HTML validation

I think that it is quite clear that the website should be viewed with
a couple of major browsers to see if it renders correctly (as
intended). If it does, then what is the point of "validation"?

Had one two or three days ago. It must still be around somewhere.

"Why does Google never use my description meta tag as my snippet?"

Answer - the preceding meta tag wasn't closed so the Googlebot was
flushing until it recovered and it missed the description meta tag.
Page indexed well, came up well in IE, Firefox and Opera (all I tried)
- just the snippet never worked.

Validation error.

I'm _NOT_ saying every page should be 100% clean, though I try to do
that myself. At the end of the day, if the validator can recover its
parsing well enough to get to the end, so can a bot. I'm just saying
the validator will often spot things the Mk I eyeball will miss.

And you never know what the bot is missing. I had a case of the
notorious broken Google verificaton met tag a few months back. A
handful of validation errors. Fixed the tag and the validator
immediately threw up two errors between the tag and </head> - it had
obviously been flushing.

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