Why I now Hate embed codes!
Yes you read it right, I hate embed codes! Why, you ask? Because 99% of them aren’t XHTML Compliant. Since my blog redesign Rosana Made sure it would be XHTML and CSS Compliant (yeah the buttons on the bottom of the page actually mean something now) click them and see what it says:
So now it’s my job to keep it that way, Rosana gave me some tips on doing that. So whats the problem? Well if I want to insert for ex. a CNETTV video my Blog ain’t compliant anymore and that sucks, same with Flickr if I say to Flickr, ‘post this image on my blog’ it will post something that isn’t compliant. Why can’t big companies just make sure that everything is web standards compliant? Is it so hard to make a webstandards compliant embed? or for that matter a webstandards compliant browser?
You said a mouth full. I also hate the way some of the embeds also slow down your sites loading.
It isn’t your hosting server that is at issue but the supplier of the content that you use. When your able to host the content locally, you don’t have that issue.
Comment by Cranky Canuck — June 3, 2008 @ 3:50 pm (618)
I know what you mean. When I get an embed code from some website, I always check the code and see if I can improve it to make it XHTML Strict. As a developer and designer, you have to be able to make it Strict. However, for normal use ‘Transitional’ would work as well. I changed the doc type to Strict. I could change it to Transitional if that would mean your embed codes would work without errors. But that’s usually not the case.
Btw, edit your links CNETTV and Flickr, right now they do not have www, even worse, no http:// in the code. It won’t link to the sites, it will just give an error on your own site.
Comment by Rosie — June 3, 2008 @ 3:53 pm (620)