I would lean towards being really lenient when it comes to w3c validation for HTML 5, because that's a moving target, the validator is often incorrect, and realistically it doesn't matter since HTML 5 is designed to ignore unrecognized codes.<div>
<br clear="all">-Otto<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Jason Gottschalk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@gottschalk.ca">jason@gottschalk.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is having a XFN profile link in <head> with <!DOCTYPE html> reason to<br>
fail a theme, as HTML 5 does not support it. Or should it just be<br>
recommend to be removed.<br>
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