Re: A very brief standards reivew…
IMHO validation is just a syntax check and the least of bbPress problems right now.
The most useful doctype for the next decade is:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Get back to me when a browser DOESN’T support that 
Makes life sooo much easier. Then posts can contain <b>, <u>, <s> and <i> and all sorts of standards people have been used to for the last decade instead of reinventing the wheel!
Now instead go round up a dozen php plugin developers and get them onboard and we’ll have some real momentum 
