diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_project_selector.rhtml b/app/views/layouts/_project_selector.rhtml
index ce2f15e0..7a280353 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_project_selector.rhtml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_project_selector.rhtml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <% user_projects_by_root = User.current.projects.find(:all, :include => :parent).group_by(&:root) %>
 <select onchange="if (this.value != '') { window.location = this.value; }">
-<option selected><%= l(:label_jump_to_a_project) %></option>
-<option disabled>---</option>
+<option selected="selected"><%= l(:label_jump_to_a_project) %></option>
+<option disabled="disabled">---</option>
 <% user_projects_by_root.keys.sort.each do |root| %>
     <%= content_tag('option', h(root.name), :value => url_for(:controller => 'projects', :action => 'show', :id => root)) %>
     <% user_projects_by_root[root].sort.each do |project| %>
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/base.rhtml b/app/views/layouts/base.rhtml
index df7b2daf..c98f2b45 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/base.rhtml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/base.rhtml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
 <head>
 <title><%=h html_title %></title>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 <div id="ajax-indicator" style="display:none;"><span><%= l(:label_loading) %></span></div>
 	
 <div id="footer">
-    Powered by <%= link_to Redmine::Info.app_name, Redmine::Info.url %> <%= Redmine::VERSION %> &copy 2006-2007 Jean-Philippe Lang
+    Powered by <%= link_to Redmine::Info.app_name, Redmine::Info.url %> <%= Redmine::VERSION %> &copy; 2006-2007 Jean-Philippe Lang
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/app/views/news/_news.rhtml b/app/views/news/_news.rhtml
index e48b81ac..e26d2c4a 100644
--- a/app/views/news/_news.rhtml
+++ b/app/views/news/_news.rhtml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <p><%= link_to(h(news.project.name), :controller => 'projects', :action => 'show', :id => news.project) + ': ' unless @project %>
 <%= link_to h(news.title), :controller => 'news', :action => 'show', :id => news %>
-<%= "(#{news.comments_count} #{lwr(:label_comment, news.comments_count).downcase})" if news.comments_count > 0 %></span>
+<%= "(#{news.comments_count} #{lwr(:label_comment, news.comments_count).downcase})" if news.comments_count > 0 %>
 <br />
 <% unless news.summary.blank? %><span class="summary"><%=h news.summary %></span><br /><% end %>
-<span class="author"><%= authoring news.created_on, news.author %></p>
+<span class="author"><%= authoring news.created_on, news.author %></span></p>
