June 10, 2007 at 4:50 pm
#739255
Member
Actually yes it does. People that care about web standards, pages rendering properly across many browsers and faster page loading, care about validation. While I agree that dumb little this like & vs & ; or > vs /> have no affect what so ever on the above its not the point. There is a right way and wrong way to do things. Just because it works doesn’t mean thats how its supposed to be done. If your going to tell the web browser what doctype to render your page in, you should be conforming to the rules of that doctype.