6 entries tagged validation
Accessibility: Submitting to Bobby
I had hoped to get my site Bobby-approved (meaning that it has passed various accessibilty tests), but HTML 4.0's introduction has moved the goalposts somewhat. Here's what I've learned so far.
Self-labelling and the PICSies
I felt I should give self-labelling (self-rating) a go, not because any of my site is intended to be for adults only, but because labelling systems like PICS really need for all web sites to be labelled.
Validation (addendum)
I added an addendum to my article about getting validated as HTML 4 after some back-and-forth about details of the W3C recommendation and whethertd elements can have
widths given as percentages...
RSS Validator
Mark Pilgrim announced a RSS validator, and much to my chagrin my RSS feed didn’t validate because the date format was wrong (I omitted the time-of-day part, which is mandatory in RFC 2822). This after I had carefully investigated RFC-2822-format dates specifically only a few weeks later. I have now fixed this and my RSS feed validates.
RSS valid, again (ahem)
My RSS 0.9x feed failed to validate
after my last entry—because I included an HTML 4
character entity in the title. (I used
— to create an em-dash.) This is OK for
HTML, but forbidden in RSS. I have fixed the script that
generates the file so it converts these entities in to the
corresponding Unicode character. Sorry for any inconvenience.