Comments and Compromises

My blog can be "sticky" or it can be "valid." It cannot, at this time, be both.

I've enabled comments on this blog, which means the front page will still validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but the "child" pages within the blog will no longer do so.

So, take advantage of this new opportunity to comment and tell me: is it better to be "sticky" or "valid?"

Blogger, Web Standards, and "An Error Occurred . . . "

Yes, I know. Adding the "links to this post" feature has caused some pages on this site to fail W3C validation. The front page and archive summary pages still validate, but the individual permalink blog entries are now broken thanks to the unencoded ampersands in the "Create a Link" code auto-generated by Blogger. I can't fix the ampersands because they don't actually appear in the template code window that end users see. My options are basically:

1. to remove that backlink feature entirely and run 100% standard compliant
   
2. keep the feature and live with the shame of a site that fails to adhere to standards
3. cajole/wheedle/nag/bribe the Blogger Team to fix their unencoded ampersands
4. move to a new site and blogging tool entirely.