You can create as much invalid HTML using CGI.pm as you can with any tool. Well, perhaps not as much, but the point remains. CGI.pm pretty much does what you tell it and it's up to you (as the coder/designer/whatever you call yourself) to verify that the results provide the features/results you need.

Please note that this isn't a criticism of CGI.pm; I'm saying it's not CGI.pm's job to prevent you from creating bad markup. If that's a concern, you need to ensure the results of your code pass validation.

The Monastery itself uses the Everything engine and uses templates and code carefully crafted by the Fearless Leader.

I suspect that cleaning up the HTML is on the list of things to do, along with several other tasks.

--f

In reply to Re: Valid HTML by footpad
in thread Valid HTML by elusion

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