{"id":7,"date":"2001-10-29T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2001-10-29T20:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/we_all_need_validation"},"modified":"2001-10-29T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2001-10-29T20:19:53","slug":"we_all_need_validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2001\/10\/we_all_need_validation.html","title":{"rendered":"We All Need Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe website repair job continues… mostly because
\nCuteFTP<\/a> is the only
\npiece of software I have right now that’s working reliably. It’s much more fun than Diablo II
\nanyway. Really.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnyway, for kicks I ran my site through the W3C Validator<\/a>.
\nUgh, how humiliating. Unknown character encoding! Unquoted attribute percentage signs!
\nOh, the horror…\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, I fixed the little nitpicky things. But I’m afraid I had to settle for
\nvalidating HTML 4.01 Transitional rather than HTML 4.01 Strict. I mean, to validate Strict, you
\nhave to give up all those deprecated tags, like BGCOLOR<\/CODE>, in favor of cascading stylesheets.
\nAck!\n<\/p>\n

\nNow, the W3C folks aren’t so bad. It’s their job to be pedantic. But if you look hard
\nenough, you can find self-righteous
\narticles<\/a> that blather on about how all the hip people these days would never even
\ntouch<\/em> the <BIG><\/CODE> tag, let alone the <FONT><\/CODE> tag.
\nHmmmm… if I just want to turn one thing on the page red and bold, how exactly does:\n<\/p>\n

\n<SPAN STYLE=”color: red; font-weight: bold”>…<\/SPAN><\/CODE>\n<\/p>\n

\nsave you more trouble than\n<\/p>\n

\n<B><FONT COLOR=”RED”>…<\/FONT><\/B><\/CODE> ?\n<\/p>\n

\nSure, stylesheets allow you to create and reuse classes. That’s great… but sometimes
\nyou just want one simple in-line change. In that case, what exactly is the clunky stylesheet
\nsyntax buying you?\n<\/p>\n

\nOh well. Someday, everyone will use Amaya<\/a>, CSS3 will
\nspread throughout the land, and ne’er a Tripod homepage will be seen.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut until then, you can take away my BGCOLOR<\/CODE> when you can pry
\nit out of my cold, dead fingers.\n<\/p>\n

Edit, May 2003: Well, this post is embarrassingly dated. Just for the record, I still think that A) BGCOLOR<\/code> has its uses and B) the “Font of Foulness<\/a>” article is extremely silly.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyway, for kicks I ran my site through the W3C Validator. Ugh, how humiliating. Unknown character encoding! Unquoted attribute percentage signs! Oh, the horror…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}