BigDave - 7:03 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Validation is your only weapon in a fight to get your site to render properly on all browsers out there.

Nope. Your only weapon is called testing. I've had pages that validate render differently on different browsers.

Running a validation program is only one sanity check. If something doesn't validate, I check it out, but I don't fix it if it ain't really broke. It's like getting warnings back from a compiler, it is simply telling you that something might be wrong.

Is that what you'd tell a client or someone interviewing you for a job?! Yikes.

Yeah, I would. I would also explain why they shouldn't care. Being willing to tell them such things, and being able to explain why, is the reason that I was usually the highest paid contract programmer at those companies.