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[Richard]

Just a quick question is W3C Validation worth the time to make sure it passes W3C Validation e.g. XHTML 1.0 Strict

[Pieter]

W3C standards drive me nuts. It's useful when you want to make sure that your site is compatible with most browsers but it's a lot of work to get everything working the way they want you to. Personally, I don't obey them.

On a related note: have you ever clicked the W3C Validation link at the bottom of this page?

[Richard]

It fails on this thread but if try it on main page of the forum it passes

I only ask as site am coding now passes xhtml 1.0 seeing if its worth the time code rest and pass 1.0

[Ryan Wagner]

Just because it passes the test doesn't mean that it will work well in all of the browsers either. I've experienced that first hand. One of the problems with our blog is that the posts themselves have a lot of issues since we have to use Live Writer in HTML mode because XHTML still has some issues. So there are 250+ errors on our homepage because of that. Not to mention that the more complicated a site gets the harder it is to abide by all of the W3C rules.

In short I would say to fix any easy errors that you may see, but don't waste time trying to make everything perfect. Just test it in all the major browsers. We always test in Firefox, Opera, IE, Konqueror, and Safari. And we normally test the current version of the browser and the last major version.

[Richard]

Just because it passes the test doesn't mean that it will work well in all of the browsers either. I've experienced that first hand. One of the problems with our blog is that the posts themselves have a lot of issues since we have to use Live Writer in HTML mode because XHTML still has some issues. So there are 250+ errors on our homepage because of that. Not to mention that the more complicated a site gets the harder it is to abide by all of the W3C rules.

In short I would say to fix any easy errors that you may see, but don't waste time trying to make everything perfect. Just test it in all the major browsers. We always test in Firefox, Opera, IE, Konqueror, and Safari. And we normally test the current version of the browser and the last major version.

Thanks for the advice, i have all but finished coding the website for my company

My Testing so far:

Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Mozilla Firefox 2
Mozilla Firefox 3
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Opera 9.25
Opera 9.50 Beta
Safari 3.0.4

Also passes xhtml 1.0 strict and xhtml 1.1 validation using the Markup Validation Service