Shareaholic Breaks W3C Valadation in HTML5

WP 4.3.1 – Shareaholic Version 7.7.0.0

My client is insisting on W3C Validation for their website:
El Dorado Beach Resort

The theme is written in HTML5.

While testing this with W3C Validation:

With Shareaholic Disabled, the above page Passes with no errors.

With Shareaholic Enabled, the above page Fails with the following error…

Error: X-UA-Compatible HTTP header must have the value IE=edge, was IE=edge,chrome=1.

This only happens with an HTML5 Theme – but it appears to me this error happens with any HTML5 Theme (I’ve tried a few!)

Investigation revealed that “chrome=1” is not valid in HTML5 (not valid in both meta tags and not valid in headers.

Likewise Google discontinued the Chrome Frame project running 2 years ago.

I did a scan of my current (large) collection of plugins and themes and found that many use “IE=edge” but None used either “chrome=1” nor the combo “IE=edge,chrome=1” used by Shareaholic and causing this W3C error.

I would suggest changing the following in the Shareaholic utilities.php file.

function add_header_xua – Line 1076

From:
$headers['X-UA-Compatible'] = 'IE=edge,chrome=1';
To:
$headers['X-UA-Compatible'] = 'IE=edge';

This solves the HTML% Validation Error!

Because chrome frame is no longer supported by Google, I would also recommend…

function draw_meta_xua Line 1086

From:
echo '<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">';
To:
echo '<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">';

The above works! I hope this, or some other HTML5 fix, will be in the next version so I do not need to edit this error out of each Shareaholic upgrade.

Thank You!

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