Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 13:28


On 24 Sep 2007, at 13:58, Gary Short wrote:

>
> On 24 Sep 2007 12:42:13 -0000, Tony Crockford wrote
>> exactly!
>>
>> so why use it as an example?
>
> What?! I used it because its such an obvious example of a standards
> compliant site that is not usable, which is the point we are debating.

hmmm...

it's not the fact that it's standard compliant or not, its that it's
being used in an inappropriate way.

in other words the web *application* depends on access to a database,
deny it access to the database and it's unusable.

so as you said, it's not the compliance that makes it unusable or not...

sheesh, a table based site built with dreamweaver would become
unusable if you couldn't use the database...

bored now.

I suspect we're agreeing with each other and just failing to
communicate it.

;)