“A casual relationship with reality”
Categories: Technical, Web Standards
In my previous post, I've got a Youtube.com Flash movie, which is very cool. Youtube.com is a video-sharing website, essentially a video version of what Flickr is to photos.
The only problem is, the code they supply isn't valid. It uses the <embed> tag for compatibility with Internet Explorer. I think it's possible to get it working with Internet Explorer in a valid way (I've gotten other Flash movies to play successfully while remaining standards compliant), but I'll have to dig back into some code to figure out how I did it, and then do a little experimentation. Given that I'm at home and don't have access to a Windows machine to test with right at the moment, I have to let it stand.
Anyhow, this is a bit of a disappointment for me, because, frankly, this will be the first time I've consciously allowed an invalid entry on this site. Every now and again I'll forget to encode an ampersand or omit an alt tag, which breaks validation, but I generally catch and correct it pretty quickly (though the last one apparently remained for about three months, yikes!). I've certainly never knowingly posted an entry that didn't validate until now, and I take great pride in that. So it breaks my heart that I have to do it now.
Plus, it kinda undercuts my smug nagging of Google about their own validation problems, and I really hate having my smugosity defied.
posted by Mark Kawakami at April 11, 2006, 10:04 PM // permalink // (70) Comments