December 29, 2006

  • Validation

    You want some validation? OK. I love you. Really.

    You want some web validation? Run your xanga site through w3c.org's validator. Be sure and specify a text encoding of iso-8859-1, since xanga doesn't specify anything.

    Here, check this page. As I mentioned, you'll have to fiddle with the text encoding before you get any useful results. You might also have to select 'HTML 4.0 transitional.' You'll get something like 90 errors.

    I'm griping about this right now because my mom wants to read my 'blog, but she can't because it's a Xanga 'blog, and she has an iMac running OS 9, with IE 5.1. It's the only site that doesn't work for her. It works under Mozilla 1.2.1, but switching over is not an option, nor should it need to be.

    Xanga HANGS IE 5.1, requiring a force-quit! This is without any flash or funky javascript or anything.

Comments (4)

  • hmmm, site validation is a crucial thing. Hmmm, need to investigate

    ryc: them Irish, they'd fight anywhere. The most bizarre is the Irish battalion that fought for the Mexicans against the US in the Mexican War. And, of course, that Gangs of New York scene is dead on, the Union Army grabbed the immigrants as they walked off the boats during the Civil War.

  • The fact that some invalid HTML crashes IE 5.1 is hardly Xanga's fault. :)

    Although, yeah, it'd be nice if the default layout would validate. It probably will one of these days... but in the meantime, why don't you set your mom up with an RSS reader?

  • Sean, sean, sean. You clearly do not understand the realm of possible solutions.

  • Oh come on... you set her up on Bloglines, subscribe her to your feed, and then it's just another web page.

    Or am I misunderstanding the realm of possible meanings of your reply?

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