> Do they want their page to fail to render entirely when PHP outputs a warning? Displaying warnings is fine. Invalid XHTML, less so. > Do they want their web

> Do they want their page to fail to render entirely when PHP outputs a warning? Displaying warnings is fine. Invalid XHTML, less so. > Do they want their website to be completely broken because they forgot to convert some of their text from Latin-1 to UTF-8 before pasting it into the document? The encoding of the content has nothing to do with the document markup. > Moreover, strictness can backfire when you have such a diversity of implementations. On the contrary: this prevents subtle bugs in the interpretation of invalid data by different implementations.