Monthly Archives: December 2010
The case of the dirty validator (why web filters suck)
Web developers, be warned! Your secret page-validating habit has been found out: This nonsense proudly brought to you by PurePages, providers of nonsense filters use by mmmuffins wifi at Toronto Union Station.
Fixing the mysterious “Element script is missing required attribute src” error
Suppose you're using the W3C validator to validate HTML5. Here's a sample document: <!doctype html> <html lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Hello</title> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> //<![CDATA[ var foo = 1; //]]> </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> Everything looks right, but you get this mysterious error: Line 6, Column 48: Element script is missing required …
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