<HTML><head></head><body><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;">I think what they meant is that as long as the theme's pass all the tests, look fine and work fine in all browsers, then a few validation errors are nothing to worry about, I'm inclined to believe the same.<br><br>Jay<br><br>Mobile, Wolf Is Mobile.<br>"Save yourself a penny for the ferryman, save yourself and let them suffer." <br><br>http://furcifer.net<br></span><br><br><hr><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Mike Little <wordpress@zed1.com></span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Monday, December 20, 2010 1:27 PM</span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Re: [theme-reviewers] Error in the test data?</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 December 2010 01:28, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br></div>HTML 5 does not require that. Just an FYI, but XHTML is beating a dead<br> horse at this point. I would not consider validation to be, well,<br> valid anymore.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I completely disagree. </div><div><br></div><div>Javascript works a lot better with valid HMTL, so does CSS. By which I mean some invalid HMTL will break both CSS styling and JavaScript functionality. So to dismiss validation as worthless ("not valid any more") is ill advised.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, HTML 5 is *not yet supported* across the board, and will not be for quite a while. XHTML is not dead, it *is supported* by all the newest browsers in their 'best' mode (not quirks).</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div>-- </div></div>Mike Little<br><a href="http://zed1.com/">http://zed1.com/</a><br><br></body></HTML>