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Old 02-07-2008, 08:04 PM
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Default Re: Content Validation

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Originally Posted by Webnauts View Post
OK Deepsand. Maybe that was a bad example. But there are for sure cases that sites cannot be crawled fully or partially due to bad formed code.
Bad example? Not at all. In fact, it's an excellent example of good code gone bad.

That code, in any language, is wholly compliant with the relevant standard(s) never serves to insure that the results it yields are those desired.

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What are bots anyway?
Bots are readers, as are "browsers." The latter name is, of course, a misnomer. "Browsers" actually read, whereas the human viewer frequently browses that which the reader displays.
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