Phillip from Warszawa, Poland"> Phillip from Warszawa, Poland"> By:  Phillip from Warszawa, Poland

Great post, although I have to disagree with a few points. While I do feel that valid markup could be better supported on the top sites you mention, I don’t think invalid code means these sites aren’t supporting web standards.

They are using correct doc types, using CSS for separating presentation from the content , and avoiding using tables for layouts. Which already shows a great deal of support for standards based design practices.

I don’t feel that validation ...

should be the only factor when it comes to saying if a site is supporting web standards or not. This is only one of the factors to be considered in my opinion and is of course something we as designers should try and adhere to. Plus if validation is how we decide whether or not a site is supporting standards, then you aren’t supporting them either as this site has a few errors too!

Just a few of my thoughts. Keep up the great work and have a great weekend.

Cheers.

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