Binary by Accident

Saturday, February 23, 2002

Well, I finally have valid CSS.

Unfortunately, I cannot get the HTML to validate. Part of the validator results make no sense to me. It says some tags aren't closed, which I don't see when I look through the source. Other errors are caused by the comments feature - but those concern me much less.

I am, once again, frustrated.

I see two problems:
  1. You need to add a meta tag declaring your document's character encoding, e.g.
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
  2. You need to encode the ampersands in your urls, e.g. instead of
    http://radiocomments.userland.com/comments?u=100111&;c=counts
    you should use
    http://radiocomments.userland.com/comments?u=100111&;amp;c=counts
To properly encode the url you need to replace all ampersands with HTML character entities.

As for the unbalanced tags, I would suspect that you've wrapped the <%items%> in your #dayTemplate with paragraph tags, which is fine as long as the items don't contain any block-level tags.
Jeff Cheney

I've been playing around trying to create the graphic I want for my title. I am not a graphic artist. I am not having any success. I do not want my title to be just text rendered as a graphic, as it is right now. I am giving up (for now) and moving along to something else. I am frustrated!

Ambrose Bierce. "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles." (Courtesy: Quotes of the Day)

This is a test to see when the comment count gets updated. I'm not sure whether it updates real-time or only when the page is published.
Bill Simoni

Follow-up. All you have to do is refresh the page and you'll see the updated comment count. Excellent!
Bill Simoni


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