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Is IPB considering making the code valid (http://validator.w3.org/check)? For instance, the page I am writing this post on claims to have 46 errors.

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They are still working on templates, anyway IPS staff said they will make everything XHTML valid before the final release (probably in RC1 stage I suppose)

I heard in one post, due to all the nasty hacks for other browsers, that it probably won't be XHTML valid. I could be wrong though.

I don't how its every going to work, with them adding more browsers every day.

Yeah, but some of the HTML errors are just silly and shouldn't have even made it into a BETA - like the task manager image being AFTER the closing <html> tag. In a browser which fully complies to the actual XHTML standard, the browser would refuse to even TRY to render the page after seeing that (since it's invalid XML - heck, it's invalid SGML too!).

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You do know that css also is validated, right? It's just so obvious to claim to have both valid css and valid html.

Yes I do. Firstly, all IE-specific CSS is in a separate file ignored by other browsers - so if all other CSS files did validate, but not the IE one, I personally wouldn't lose any sleep. Secondly, I'm not aware of any non-standard "hacks" in the IE CSS file - just adjusting margins and paddings and that sort of thing to compensate for differences.

That said...I don't work on the skin, this is all Rikki's domain. ;)

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