I had heard talk of blogger’s templates being standards-compliant a while before I started using it, but only now did I think to check with the W3C HTML validator So I passed in the url of this here blog, and lo and behold, lots of errors. However, examining the output more carefully, all the errors seemed to be on line 294. Looking at the page source, this turns out to be the line that Blog*Spot automatically adds to the file for its advertising banner, which I’ve grumbled about before. Yes, not only does it uglify the page, but it breaks standards compliance, too. Another reason to host this somewhere else as soon as I can.
But wait! There is one other small error. In the user profile section, the image has no closing tag; it finishes with > rather than />. After the good people at Blogger presumably took great care to get the templates into nice valid XHTML, there is still this one small error, marring it all. And since it’s generated automatically, there’s nothing I can do about it. Grr…
There are millions of ad-free hosts out there, just look…
I know. I just haven’t yet got around to working out which are any good, and signing up with one. Are there any you’d particularly recommend?