Comments on: Embed a Valid XHTML Twitter Widget

By: leandra

leandra — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:34:33 +0000

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By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:14:22 +0000

@tony you should add type=”text/javascript” not type=”javascript”

By: Tony Q. King

Tony Q. King — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:23:20 +0000

OK – now for the vers-2 Twitter-widget script-

The pair as supplied by Twitter, has no TYPE= parameter, so the W3C validator flags the two instances as errors.

I tried adding a type=”javascript” – this validated OK, but then the widget no longer worked.

Any ideas?

By: Tony Q. King

Tony Q. King — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:12:19 +0000

OOPS! Let’s try that again!
I’m a latecomer to this thread, as the “vers-2″ twitter widget does not appear to be Flash.

But as far as xhtml strict compliance of FLASH goes, the following compliant code example seems to work quite well; at least in any browser I have tested (IE, FF, Chrome and Safari) –

< object width=”100″ height=”15″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
data=”http://blogue.tk/im/franc.swf” >

The above was originally suggested in a W3C thread.

The vers-2 twitter widget is now a script and NOT xhtml-compliant, but more on this later…

By: Tony Q. King

Tony Q. King — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:09:17 +0000

I’m a latecomer to this thread, as the “vers-2″ twiiter widget does not appear to be Flash.

But as far as xhtml strict compliance of FLASH goes, the following compliant code example seems to work quite well; at least in any browser I have tested (IE, FF, Chrome and Safari) –

The above was originally suggested in a W3C thread.

The vers-2 twitter widget is now a script and NOT xhtml-compliant, but more on this later…

By: Aileen

Aileen — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:07:38 +0000

I can get my twitter widget to validate for xhtml strict 1.0 strict no problem, but when I try to validate the CSS it shows up lots of errors – any idea how to fix that?

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