HTML non-compliance - does it matter?
This is an interesting experiment: W3C Validation, who cares, Google? Yahoo? MSN?, over at cass-hacks.com.
He created a page which was well and truly broken - missing tags, some tags not closed properly and a mix of HTML and XHTML codes. It turns out that the search engines don’t seem to care much, as the page was spidered successfully.
Towards the end he says that the page displays okay in Firefox but not in IE, as expected. Yes, and right there is a good reason for having compliant code. I have always found it amusing that IE as a browser does not properly render things that are coded correctly, but as soon as you give broken code to IE, the display is broken.
Go figure.
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