borntobeweb - 1:04 am on May 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

The best place to force some sort of validation and accessibilty is the browser. Think about it, many people who publish a website don't care or even don't know about SEO, and even less care about Google in particular, but they all care whether the website displays on major browsers. It should be the browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari) that are held responsible for validating pages and rejecting bad ones, maybe starting with the next version of HTML. And even better, all browsers should render the same code exactly the same way, but I suppose I'm really dreaming there...

Not that I'm asking that the next version of browsers should just stop rendering old non-compliant websites. But starting with the next set of HTML standards, any documents that want to take advantage of the new features should only be rendered if they validate thoroughly.