Comments on: Bad Code http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/01/11/bad-code/ Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Steve Lawson http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/01/11/bad-code/#comment-906 Steve Lawson Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:42:53 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/01/11/bad-code/#comment-906 Instead of putting the W3C "valid" buttons on my site, I put "Powered by XHTML, CSS, and Movable Type 3.2," with "XHTML" and "CSS" linked to the "validate referrer" URL for the W3C site. I figured that signaled my intention without promising that every page was valid all the time. I don't re-validate enough. I usually do it when I have a suspicion that I dropped a tag somewhere in a post. Your post made me think that it would be cool to have an RSS feed of the validation status of my home page. A Google search led me to this: http://www.benhammersley.com/tools/xhtml_validator_to_rss.html That seems like it should do the trick; the author, Ben Hammersley, writes "The validation is redone everytime the feed is requested. If there are no errors, the feed will be empty." I am having trouble testing it right now, however, as I can't seem to get through to the W3C validator at all right now. But it looks like a nice (partial) solution. Instead of putting the W3C “valid” buttons on my site, I put “Powered by XHTML, CSS, and Movable Type 3.2,” with “XHTML” and “CSS” linked to the “validate referrer” URL for the W3C site. I figured that signaled my intention without promising that every page was valid all the time.

I don’t re-validate enough. I usually do it when I have a suspicion that I dropped a tag somewhere in a post.

Your post made me think that it would be cool to have an RSS feed of the validation status of my home page. A Google search led me to this: http://www.benhammersley.com/tools/xhtml_validator_to_rss.html

That seems like it should do the trick; the author, Ben Hammersley, writes “The validation is redone everytime the feed is requested. If there are no errors, the feed will be empty.”

I am having trouble testing it right now, however, as I can’t seem to get through to the W3C validator at all right now. But it looks like a nice (partial) solution.

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