I said Validating was waste of my time. Valid code is essential. If you are confident that your can write perfectly valid code then by all means stop validating but don't stop writing valid code. That was my point. I was irritated that people seemed to treat validation as the key thing, when validation for its own sake is pointless. Concentrate on the code, make sure you validate not for the sake of good code but for your visitors and definitely don't do it for the special badge.

Pete.