James Dunne wrote:
> My conclusion:
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> The problem is that HTML started out as an unstrict standard, and trying to later force an unstrict standard to become a strict standard is pointless, since all the existing content complying to that original standard is obviously not strict and forcing it to become strict would break a lot of things.
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> Then comes the addition of the DOCTYPE tag which specifies to which standard the content tries to comply with (grossly oversimplified to either a strict one or an unstrict one).  This is also effectively meaningless, since the content creator can simply chose to comply to an unstrict standard, thereby rendering the stricter standards meaningless.  You are free to disagree here, and I do see a few areas here where I can be wrong or misleading.
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> In summary, if you can specifically name several *actual* reasons why W3C compliance will produce significant gains and how it could somehow radically change the web and fix all the broken content in it, then I'll consider it. =)

In the case of Digitalmars website I hope that this new standards compliance helps Walter achieve more. Cascading style sheets save a lot of developer time thus allowing Walter to focus more on writing the compiler even better. Besides centralized style sheets decrease web server bandwidth usage. I hope you can find some answers here:

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq