I even took care and fixed up some of the plugins I was going to use, and kept the whole story pretty neat up to the point I tried to implement facebook connect.

The different implementations cause up to 20 errors through validation. Even the small “connect to facebook” button generates 4 errors in its own. I was thinking of setting up a custom document type and define all tags I will need, but I have realized that this issue leads much further.

The standardization process of W3C is simple unable to keep up with the speed of development. This is how youtube.com generates 189 Errors, 54 warning(s). That is how facebook.com generates 42 Errors.

If I have to decide between facebook connect or valid XHTML which one do I choose? Which is more beneficial: to stay standard, for a far not surprising effect on those few who even notices, or to go socialize, and allow people to connect to my site? I chose without any doubts.

That is how my page is going to generate errors and that is how I no longer advise my clients to make sure every bit of code is valid W3C standard. It seems like those days are gone…

http://validator.w3.org/