Thanks for the tip on the "magic" quote marks.
I never heard of them, and
am not sure how they got there in the first place.
Interestingly, I fixed the three errors and now the
validation tool has
found 70 more! It starts off by saying "No Character
Encoding Found!
Falling back to UTF-8." And then it goes on to list
each of 70 problems.
I was reading up on it just now, and it seems that the
character encoding
should be provided along with the html from the server and
should also be in
the html. This is all new to me, not sure what to do.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Boyer [mailto:aboyer hpiracing.com]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:05 PM
To: Tom Rogers; merchant5-userslistmgr.miva.com
Subject: RE: [m5u] Proper Doc Type
This is the error I got when trying to validate your site on
http://validator.w3.org/
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Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line
78, 121,
143 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret
as utf-8 (in
other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the
specified
Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the
file and the
character encoding indication.
------------------------------------------------------------
---------
So something on those three lines isn't working well with
the validator.
After looking at the lines w3 mentioned, I found you're
using Magic
Quotes on the words "mental illness". Take
those out and use regular "
marks.
Also, there's a single magic quote on 121 at word
Center's. Replace
this with the regular ' mark.
Also, there's a (c) symbol which should be replaced with
©.
Make those changes and try it again.
________________________________
Alex Boyer
Webmaster
Hobby Products International
70 Icon Street
Foothill Ranch, CA 92610 USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-merchant5-userslistmgr.miva.com
[mailto:owner-merchant5-userslistmgr.miva.com] On Behalf
Of Tom Rogers
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:51 AM
To: merchant5-userslistmgr.miva.com
Subject: [m5u] Proper Doc Type
I was interested to see the Miva article about
www.nauticawatches.com
and
how Carl Thien has created a store that makes good use of
CSS and the
site
meets the accessibility guidelines. He was quoted as saying
"The new
site
has an HTML 4.01 Strict DTD, uses no tables except for the
display of
tabular data, has relative font sizes so the user can
increase the size
of
the text using View > Text Size in their browser, has no
JavaScript, and
is
easy to update."
In creating my site at http://www.p
ower2u.org/mm5/merchant.mvc? (With
extensive help from Lynda Freeman aka the Miva Diva) I used
CSS as much
as
possible, and for the doc type used <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD
HTML
4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd
"> which worked
on
the main part of the site.
I have never been able to get the store to validate. Do I
have the
wrong
doc type? Should it be Strict DTD?
I surveyed 23 stores featured in the Miva gallery, 9 were
transitional,
13
had nothing, and only one (nauticawatches.com) was strict.
Tom Rogers
www.tomrogerswebdesign.com
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