[OSGeo-Discuss] [planet] Bloggers, clean your (X)HTML!

Volker Mische volker.mische at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 13:12:18 PST 2011


On 12/19/2011 09:49 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:46:00PM +0000, Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> The planet.osgeo.org looks...simply it does not look at all.
>> I have checked randomly a few blogs with http://validator.w3.org and
>> it does not look good.
>> Some blogs are even claiming XHTML strict in DOCTYPE  and are
>> generating ~300 errors!
>> This is impossible to find out if the problem is with the planet
>> itself or with the blogs.
>>
>> I want to call all bloggers syndicated with the planet.osgeo.org to
>> consider checking their
>> blogs with the validator and fix any serious errors if reported. The
>> serious errors are ill-formed
>> tags, missing closing tags or <br/> vs <br />, etc.
> 
> Since we're at it, would it be possible to only show a short summary
> of each article on planet, rather than the full thing ?
> 

I actually prefer to have the full articles. So you only have to load a
single page and don't have to follow too many links.

Cheers,
  Volker




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