Comments on: Embed a Valid XHTML Twitter Widget

By: dbashby (David Ashby)

dbashby (David Ashby) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:59:51 +0000

Embed a Valid XHTML Twitter Widget http://bit.ly/LpZMH

By: Me

Me — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:44:31 +0000

By the way your captcha thing sucks it doesn’t work right every time, I had to input the same captcha code 3 times in a row to make it work. Try using CFormsII for your form needs, its the best out there for wordpress.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:42:31 +0000

Sorry to tell ya that Simon was right, it’s good that you want to make your sites valid and that you only will accept a valid site, I am the same way, but Simon is right in that fact that yes your code does validate but your code is only validating based on the fact that your tricking the validator into thinking its valid. Of course sometimes its unavoidable to where you have to use a seperate ie stylesheet to fix all those annoying problems with ie6, but in a general rule its best to avoid this types of fixes to truly have a valid website. Check out Simons link for the proper solution to fix this and actually the widget runs much quicker.

By: jamesakadamingo (James Chorlton)

jamesakadamingo (James Chorlton) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:29:18 +0000

Embed a Valid XHTML Twitter Widget http://bit.ly/LpZMH

By: Amir Watad

Amir Watad — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Thank you @Mr. Radio for your comment.
I’m happy that you found this useful.
However, I don’t like this method for embedding flash. It has disadvantages. (In the case of the twitter widget, you cannot login when you embed it using this method).
The best way so far is using “swfobject”. http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
I use it here in this website. Maybe I’ll post about it when I’ll have a little free time.

By: Mr. Radio

Mr. Radio — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:13:00 +0000

Actually this fix was fairly useful for me, I’m writing a whole new version 2.0 of my site and i want it to be xhtml and use this twitter widget.

So yeah, thanks for the fix – it works for me (I’m not a great coder or anything…but just wanted to give a big thank you!) and it’s going to appear in the version 2.0 of my site that I plan on launching within a month or so.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:25:23 +0000

My site is english, there’s a button in the upper right

But, I’m not claiming your solution is not XHTML, but I say, that from what I see, it’s a partly work-around for the problem, although it does work fine, don’t worry about that

I’ve changed my URL to the english version should’ve done that before.
Your solution takes note of IE, my solution isn’t browser dependant anymore.
Or I misread something, and your solution is the same, but then I’m missing something.
For easy url to my solution:
http://www.casa-laguna.net/taal/view/95

By: Amir Watad

Amir Watad — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:12:57 +0000

Simon,
First of all, thank you for your comment.
Second: I’m quite sure that my code is XHTML valid. If you claim otherwise, you maybe want to give a better explanation that just saying “it doesn’t work”.
Third: Your site is not English, so it cannot help me very much.
Anyway, I’m not using the above method anymore as it has issues. I’m using SWFobject for this, I’m just too lazy to post about it, but a post will come soon.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:28 +0000

Your code is not actually XHTML compliant, you only let the W3C checker bypass the code. That’s not an actual solution.
A real XHTML1.1 strict code can be found on my site. It works as far as I know, although I think the twitter-widget is a bit sluggish on my site sometimes (might be my server?)