Validate! Validate!

I am one of the many people that works on L-Space, a large fan site dedicated to the works of Terry Pratchett. One of our coding goals is to have as much of the site as possible be XHTML compliant.

Trying to do this, and trying to meet all the validators requirements, can be an extremely annoying and time-consuming task. I do get as close as I can, but in some of the information I get about the pages I treat more as suggestions than hardcore rules. (We also use a checking tool called HTML Tidy, and that thing can be amazingly picky.)

Shamus at Twenty-Sided has an amusing post about the errors we have to deal with, and is pretty spot on with some comments.

(Now if I only I cared enough to make my main site compliant...)