had the other day.
Basically he was talking about ‘ultra strict’ mode, where Opera would stop rendering a page when it comes across a mistake.
Of course this would mean that most of the websites in the world wouldn’t work, because only a few percent of the websites actually validate.
But for web designers who do want to try to write valid pages, it would be an easy way to validate a number of pages.
Obviously this would not be the default, nor should it be something that could be easily activated by mistake. But it would be an innovative feature that would be in line with Opera’s long history of supporting standards compliance.
Of course web designers should be validating their pages, and of course they should be writing clean code… but I hand code my web pages in XHTML 1.0 strict (except for the blog, which I hand-tweaked to create XHTML 1.0 strict pages).
But mistakes happen.
Opera could be the only major browser to provide this feature (I think Amaya might do it, but it fails to support standards enough to be useful).
It’s a good idea.
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