Title: W3C Validation Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# W3C Validation Error

 *  [robin_dean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin_dean/)
 * (@robin_dean)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-error-9/)
 * This …
 *  “/><!–[if lt IE 9]><script src=”//html5sh…”
 * Amounts to this …
 * “Bad value publisher for attribute rel on element link: Not an absolute IRI. 
   The string publisher is not a registered keyword or absolute URL.”
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## Tags

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 * [W3C](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3c/)

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 * Last reply from: [robin_dean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin_dean/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-error-9/)
 * Status: not resolved