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Fixed the RSS feed

I just noticed that this blog's RSS feed was pointing to my server's internal IP address, "hh2k.homelinux.org". Apparently it's a bug of some sort in subText's URL processor, so I replaced the dynamic link to the feed with a static one pointing to my DynDNS name. The feed should be working outside of my LAN now.

Has anybody been using the W3C Markup Validator recently? I ran my blog through it and received 24 errors in the output. Upon correcting one of the errors, the error count decreased to thirteen, and the correction of a second error brought the count down to two. Better yet, I've noticed in subText's generated output that the same error (a capitalized Title attribute, which is illegal in XHTML) is generated in a number of places, yet is only detected once by the validator. I can't fix that particular bug without recompiling subText, so it's staying broken.

Print | posted on Saturday, 19 January, 2008 10:26 AM | Filed Under [ Blog-related ]

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# re: Fixed the RSS feed

Sure, but if someone WANTS to make their markup complient, you shouldn't discourage them.
1/23/2008 8:10 AM | Andrew T.
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# re: Fixed the RSS feed

I've recently ran the W3C markup validator on a few pages of mine, and it seems more strict than it was a year or so ago. I had a page coded in XHTML 1.0 Transitional and it passed the last time I tried to validate it about a year ago, and I recently ran the same page again, and it had something like five errors. Another page had something like 44 errors because the page had an ampersand symbol in it.
1/22/2008 3:03 AM | Billy Miller
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"I believe a website should be designed for human to read, not machine:"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever consider that it can be both things at once?
1/22/2008 8:55 AM | Andrew T.
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Please allow me to rephrase that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A website should be designed with focus on its intended readers - human. Passing the validation test should not receive high priority.
1/23/2008 7:13 AM | Antony Shen
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I wouldn't worry too much about the W3C Validator thing. I believe a website should be designed for human to read, not machine. Of course I can expect those open-source people would differ.
1/20/2008 8:59 PM | Antony Shen

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