On 6 Dec 2008 Rob Kendrick wrote:

> Please note everybody that I said that validators serve no purpose in
> the development of web browsers.  You and others appear to be confusing
> this with the development of web sites.

I think I made precisely that distinction.

> A browser that cannot render broken HTML is not a useful thing, given
> the vast majority of sites are broken.  Thus, knowing that sites are
> broken is not useful.

But knowing how they are broken is, and so is knowing how mainstream 
browsers deal with the same faults. Knowing that a site is valid is 
also useful, since a browser must correctly render compliant sites.

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