Does Podcasting plugin Validate

[bdconnolly]

Hey, I had the latest version of "East Podcasting" plugin installed. Had a link to an mp3 so it "embedded a player. WC3 validator when nuts. It produced 15 errors related to illegal attributes.

Thoughts?

[blog.brockha.us]

I guess the main reason is the embed tag that is added and what is not XHTML valid.

So the Easy Podcating Plugin is producing working HTML code but not XHTML valid code. I was thinking about changing this, but hadn't the time yet, as it is not only done by exchanging the players code only.

[bdconnolly]

Well, one of our claims to fame for our site is that the entire site validates.

As such...

[blog.brockha.us]

.. as such you can't use this plugin yet. Sorry. But as I said: I'm thinking about changing this already.. But my time is very short at the moment.. Sorry.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The onl way to produce valid XHTML is to use Javascript to output the HTML code. That however sucks, as it degrades browser performance.

XHTML sucks on the embed vs. object regard. Or, more exactly, IE sucks that it requires invalid XHTML.

Regards,
Garvin

[blog.brockha.us]

No.. I think it can be done w/o using JS. And not IE is it, that needs the embed tag but mozilla, AFAIK. But IE needs some "special" object tags (codebase), that are not XHTML valid. But it can be done, I found a tutorial I have too look deeper into..

[blog.brockha.us]

It's ready. I commited the version 1.9 of the Easy Podcasting Plugin producing XHTML valid player code. Read this article http://blog.brockha.us/index.php?archiv ... lected]=en if you are interested in more information.

[mattsches]

Great stuff, Grischa, looks like it validates perfectly now!

[blog.brockha.us]

Cool!