XHTML 1.0 Strict Validation

I have had a problem for a long time with my main page (this one) where it was horizontally centered in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. It’s natural to blame IE for that, but as someone concerned with code quality you don’t want to blame the browser until you’ve confirmed your site is W3C compliant.

So I just spent like an hour going through all of my XHTML Strict errors from the W3C XHTML Validation site. They were legion.

I cleaned most of them up, and other than my YouTube video embedding (which XHTML Strict hates) I am now good to go. As a result, my site is now loading properly within Internet Explorer 8, which is the only version of the browser I care about.

W00t.

Links

[ Validation of dmiessler.com/writing/ | w3c.org ]