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

Tyler Mitchell tmitchell at osgeo.org
Wed Dec 21 08:14:56 PST 2011


If only it was the bloggers fault ;-)  My blog is more recently broke but I didn't roll
my own feed - just using Drupal syndication right out of the box.  I doubt I'll be
able to change anything internally to fix that :[   If anyone else does, I'll be happy
to apply the changes here too!

Tyler

On 2011-12-21, at 3:02 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Wonder if we could automate the checking; and only publish out things that pass? With a placeholder for articles with invalid content ...
> 
> -- 
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 6:46 AM, 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.
>> 
>> Thank you for your understanding!
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
>> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>> Member of ACCU, http://accu.org
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