According to a HTML comment on drupal.org, the site "does not validate. We would like it to, but that would mean reduced user experience for the majority of our visitors."
However, the errors seem to be mostly very simple, like a duplicate element ID (namely "edit-form_id") or a typo(?) ("wbr /" tag). Also, what precisely is the "reduced user experience" of sites that validate?
From my point of view, it seems pretty simple to make the site be truly XHTML 1.0 compliant (as it claims to be), so please do it. Invalid pages are bad for SEO, for more reasons see http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html . Thanks for your time.

By the way, I have a question. Is this XHTML 1.0 incompliance only local at Drupal.org, or no Drupal-powered site validates?

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sepeck’s picture

Feel free to load up a defulat theme and test it. Theme validation is primarily up to the theme used and the defualt ones validate.

Yours is now the fourth post in the last week asking this question.

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Steven’s picture

The wbr tag is an unofficial tag supported by several browsers which allows soft linebreaks which are expanded as needed. This is useful for the narrow sidebars on this site which tend to have lots of user submitted text in them (forum topic titles, for example).

It is similar to a softhyphen ­, but works better in today's browsers.

None of this relates to Drupal in general. They are particular hacks in Drupal.org's own theme. The default Drupal install will validate.

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blb’s picture

seems like the #8203; entity could serve the same purpose but with better compatibility and validation. see http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html for chart of browser support.

Tomi’s picture

Thanks for clearing things up, and I'm sorry for not searching for the answer first, although I normally do it.

sepeck’s picture

Not a problem. These things happen to all of us. :)

-Steven Peck
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