It's one thing to make sure that your personal or client website validates, but ensuring that your blog does requires a lifestyle change. Herein, DLB addresses three unexpected, day-to-day blog validation errors.
One particular point of pride for us here at DLB is the fact that we post on BlogLESS six days a week, and we simultaneously manage to keep it valid.
For the most part, once you've mentally committed to valid HTML, this kind of feat rarely causes a problem. However, for a very brief moment this fine Wednesday, I thought I'd share with you three fairly non-intuitive things that we've run into that caused us validation errors, and what you can do to prevent them.
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Paul — Sep 17, 2008
It's not just Vimeo: All embedded videos can be made valid using the Flash Satay technique. Here, we look at some code from YouTube.
About a month ago, I wrote a post for BlogLESS about how to display video content from Vimeo with Valid XHTML using Drew McLellan's Flash Satay technique.
Recently, it occurred to me to make this explicit: You can do the exact same thing with videos from YouTube! So, in the interest of continued blog validation, let's take another look at what makes an embedded video invalid, and how to avoid it. We'll start with the generics, and then move on to the slightly more finicky YouTube requirements.
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Paul — Sep 15, 2008
The validation enthusiast can't seem to get a break in today's fast-talkin', rich media world.
Last week, I posted a video hosted on the video-sharing site Vimeo, only to be met with irritating XHTML validation errors.
The W3C XHTML Validator FAQ suggested I try Drew McLellan's famous Flash Satay method, but I just plain don't have the patience to wrap every embedded video on this blog in another Flash movie, and besides IE7 fixed the problem that motivated the Satay technique in the first place.
On top of all that, this particular error was incredibly easy to fix. (Which does make you wonder why Vimeo didn't just fix in the first place!)
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Paul — Aug 6, 2008
