by eValid » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:12 pm
Thanks for asking. This is a question that comes up a lot.
Basically, you can validate without having to synchronize, but when
you synchronize you have intrisically validated.
So validate is a subset of synchronize, OK?
Look at it this way: If you run a "validate and synchronize on visible text"
command the only way the synchronization finishes is that the required
visible text really is there...so you have already validated that.
That having been said, however, it is important to note that SOME
very complex AJAX pages acexist where this is not true 100% of the time.
In this case the active JavaScript can manipulate the page contents
in strange ways and in THOSE cases you really do have to separate
"synchronize" and "validate"...but those cases are rare.
