Michael Herring - Senior Web Developer — Since 2000, Michael has built and designed websites with an emphasis on W3C standards-compliance, accessibility, user-friendliness and cross-platform compatibility. Michael is a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers.
Navigating the Nuances of Markup Validation
Is There Still a Valid Argument for Valid Markup?
Perfectly valid markup seems to have become less important recently. There has been increased adoption of techniques like ARIA and RDFa that offer benefits not possible when perfectly validating against traditional doctypes. These benefits include increased accessibility for internet applications and additional semantic information for content like product listings and reviews.
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Don't limit your designs - use graceful degradation!
What is graceful degradation?
1. a euphemism for explaining the paradox of beauty and shame
2. providing full-blown super-fancy designs and functionality to newer capable browsers while serving a simpler design and basic functionality to older browsers
3. engaging in corrupt behaviors with such loveliness and charm that defilement is canceled out
