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gribble
post Mar 10 2008, 03:02 AM
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I have tried both transitional and strict doctypes for my site. But I get errors for either doctype.
Which one should I use for my type of site (embedded Quicktime, height references, margin references etc)?


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post Mar 10 2008, 03:14 AM
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Could you show us the errors?

What are you using to embed the Quicktime?


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post Mar 10 2008, 04:11 AM
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I am using HTML Strict 4.01 and no problem ever since!
Anyway, I am not sure if the doctype has anything to do with the embedding QT file? I think it's just some code error.
Post in your complete HTML code here as already requested by Jason biggrin.gif


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post Mar 10 2008, 06:06 AM
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Attached is the error report from w3.
I used a mixture of handcoding, cut n paste off the net and GoLive (boo, hiss!)
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Attached File  check.html ( 37.51K ) Number of downloads: 4
 


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post Mar 10 2008, 06:15 AM
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The first couple of errors you have there are just simple mistakes.

<script language="javascript">

Should just be

<script type="javascript"> the language attribute is now considered legacy so really isn't required.

The height attribute should be set via CSS and not the way you have done... eg

style="height: 100%" for the first error and there is no height attribute at all for the <TR> tag. You should set the height of the <TD> elements instead -- and you preferably you should use CSS for that also.

The remaining errors are all part and parcel of including flash movies embedded into a web page. The only way to stop the validation errors is to write it to the page with javascript but this doesn't get rid of the errors, it just hides them from the validator which is useless really.

If you want to embed flash you will have to grin and bear the errors -- at least until HTML 5 is released and accepted as a standard recommendation.


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post Mar 10 2008, 02:45 PM
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If you want to embed flash you will have to grin and bear the errors -- at least until HTML 5 is released and accepted as a standard recommendation.

Actually there are ways to show flash movies that will outstand validation. I have used it myself one day. Try google on that. However I don't remember if it worked in all browsers. Maybe IE was a problem. But this was some time ago, so maybe there are ways to work around that now also.

edit: Now that i posted it, i start doubting if what i used back then wasn't some kind of (media)player object, instead of flash. So, you can google, but i'm not quite sure if you'll find anything wink.gif

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