Why is your site not valid XHTML?

December 10, 2003 | Comments Closed

From E. Hummel

Is this a test smartguy? :0)

I should ask you why you care, but I do think it’s a valid (pardon the pun) question.

Short answer: I’ve got better things to do than pleasing the W3C validator all the time. It’s just not practical.

Long answer: The site is valid by any real world standard. It is valid against the W3C validator 99% of the time with the exception of the “Recent Links” section of the individual entries. Those errors are usually unencoded ampersands and the like and frankly that is something that doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

The reason why the site will choke the validator is usually because of that or one of two other reasons.

1) bad characters either in entries or comments that I’ve overlooked, or 2) a new development feature that I’ve not had a chance to validate.

Technically the site isn’t 100% valid, 100% of the time. I think I can live with that. I hope my readers can as well. For more information on validation and the frustrations involved in keeping a site valid read the following entries:

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