"Valid HTML" Attribute When Uploading New Items

I personally don’t care.

JeffreyWay said
Most bloggers and buyers don’t care or understand what “Valid HTML ” is.

If this is true, then I believe it can be removed.

Get rid imo. As you say, most users dont understand the meaning, and will probably give it quite a different meaning. i.e. they will assume if something doesn’t validate it is ‘broken’ or ‘lower quality’ (even though there may be good reasons why something doesn’t validate). Also as we move towards html5, for which there isnt an ‘official’ validator its even more unhelpful.

Since the good markup is checked by the reviewer, I think you can get rid of it

The bloggers and generally most clients, don’t care about the markup, but ThemeForest should care about the quality of the code!

New authors won’t know that the themes have to be written in valid html.

@JeffreyWay

Yes, I know what you mean. I think it is commonly known that TF only accepts valid themes but there are always new authors who use no valid html technique.

If it is somewhere mentioned then I think we could remove that point

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthemeforest.net%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

I say dump it

duotive said
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthemeforest.net%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

I don’t think anyone cares about validation anymore

Google doesn’t care

Yahoo doesn’t care

But those guys don’t matter anyway, what matters is that Jeffrey Way doesn’t care