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It isn't!
I guess the reason this happens is that at one stage in the page's history, it WAS valid [X]HTML, but Mr. Sloppy Webmaster has made update after update, thrown the rule book out of the window, but left the icon, complete with link to the validator on the page.
It just makes you look silly. Especially given the size of the font used by the validator in announcing your short-comings.
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[edited by: korkus2000 at 1:46 pm (utc) on May 1, 2003]
[edit reason] fixed title :) [/edit]
the w3c logo is like a mot only good on that day ;)
DaveN
A year or so after validation...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
...I added the CodeAmber.org - The Web's Amber Alert System [codeamber.org] ticker (javascript). It was, and still is my desire to lend my website to whatever purpose could possibly be a part of finding lost/missing/stolen children.
I knew it wouldn't validate, but I left the logo anyway on the off chance no one would notice. Recently someone here at WebmasterWorld did and called me on it in the forum.
Needless to say, I pulled the validation logo. Not so much because I was caught, rather that me 'telling the world' my site was valid by some-such-whatever standards - was no longer as important to me as the likelihood of finding one child.
Mods, if this post should be in the Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned [webmasterworld.com] thread feel free to move it.
Pendanticist.
