Re: How Important is it that a Site is HTML Compliant to W3 Standards?

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Dr J R Stockton contained the following:

One should not choose the DOCTYPE merely to control the number of error
messages.

One should choose the doctype that describes your document. If you use
deprecated elements or attributes, such as <font> or target= then you
should use a transitional doctype. If you only use recommended
elements and attributes then you should use a strict doctype.

That's only necessary if one is positively claiming conformance. I
would rather know that the whole page was compliant with strict, apart
from one known harmless exception, than know only that the whole page
was compliant with less-strict.

Of course, I could write check with strict and change the doctype for
publication in order to claim validity; but then I'd have to check that
the change did not affect the page display.

That's exactly my view.

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