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b2evo manual wrote:

In order for your skin to be listed at skins.b2evolution.net it has to meet a few requirements.

1. Your skin should validate as XHTML. The version you use is not as important as the fact that it validates. See also Validate as XHTML.

How i seriously met this situation is the time i created a custom work from a skin from skin directory -instead of starting from scratch- presuming it was already validated and proper .. But it has been a total failure as the skin had important validation errors by default.. (no i am not gonna mention which it is)..

These errors sometimes -as in my case- cause really serious displaying faults , esp. in IE..

Just to give you an idea what is going on; here are the results for the latest 10 skins submitted to skins index:

Skins those wont validate:

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=Floral]Floral[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=Pigmented]Pigmented[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=Existence]Existence[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=PinkBlossoms]PinkBlossoms[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=MinimalAttitude]MinimalAttitude[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=YourContentIII]YourContentIII[/url]

Skins those validate:

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=LotsaBlue]LotsaBlue[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=AddYourContent2]AddYourContent2[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=BasicallyPink]BasicallyPink[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=evocamp]EvoCamp[/url]
should be added to these with a record high validation error : P.. just to mention for those using it, it has serious sidebar problems..

and some more appropriate examples

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=terrafirma]Terrafirma[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=simple_zen]simple_zen[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=b2evo_ru]b2evo_ru[/url]

[url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://skindemo.b2evolution.net/2/index.php?tempskin=b2evo_ru]nautica_2l[/url]

Bottomline is; afaiconcern the skins that dont validate should be kindly returned to the author for further review, just because b2 does not have much skins, it does not mean all the skins should be accepted, and i am also against manipulating a skin very little (like colors only) and re-releasing it.. Of course these are only ideas of mine.