Re[4]: Question Day: Netscape Tables (& images?)

by Nathan Lyle <nathan(at)upwebmaestro.com>

 Date:  Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:13:07 -0400
 To:  hwg-techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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>>Well color me silly. Dang if that didn't work like a charm. :) Thanks!
>>I've been trying to always include height and width attributes anyway
>>as part of good coding practice, but this came from a PHP page and I
>>confess I've been sloppier with PHP pages since I haven't been running
>>them through validators.

>   Why not ?
>   It is simple to send the url to the w3c validator
>   with any parameters you want after ? character.
>   Of course you have to put proper parameters and
>   test with different values of parameters.
>   As many tests as you think there are different
>   output screens of the php script.

That's pretty much why not. In most of the cases, there are just too
many possible permutations to sit and run them all through. So, I
shoot for good habits, and validate the more static pages.

~ The U.P. Web Maestro (Nathan Lyle)

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