Comment Re:When did validation actually help anyone? (Score 1) 158
Unfortunately, most of the major browsers today do not do this at all consistently. Even some of the people writing the standards have basically given up.
Were you doing websites 10 or 15 years ago? I was. Browser compatibility today is phenomenal in comparison. No, it's not perfect, or even wonderful... except when you compare to then.
HTML5 "living standard"? Seriously? If it changes arbitrarily then it's not a standard.
I agree. Please remind Congress about this in re: the U.S. Constitution.
Another common case is trendy MVC frameworks like Angular, which often use non-standard attributes on HTML elements for their own purposes. They could use standard "data-*" attributes, but once you've got a few of those sitting on many elements in your mark-up, it's just noise and excess weight, so they use their own prefix for namespacing instead. And yet, I don't see anyone claiming that either Google's search engine or Angular as a JS framework have failed as a result of these heinous crimes...
If it breaks my JS or CSS, I won't use it unless the stakeholder absolutely insists. And then I'll try to talk them out of it.