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NOT Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

Post by Dequin » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:02 am

Hi there, I'm not sure if this post should be in this forum, so i want to apologies if it doesn't.

First of all:  Joomla is a GREAT JOB! i love it, I'm just starting to use it.  :)

Now the subject:

Just 4 kidding i went to http://validator.w3.org, to check out my new joomla powered site, and i found that in fact it doesn't have "Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!", looking the reason for this i saw that the ampersands on the URLs has problems:

it is written like this



And should be this



This is the short explanation in the validator page:

"... Entity references start with an ampersand ( & ) and end with a semicolon ( ; ). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&" (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and æ are different characters..."

I suppose that it can be fixed, but i don't know where to send this info. (or how to fix it  :-\ )

PS. I'm sorry for my english, it's not my first language, i speak spanish  :P

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Re: NOT Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

Post by bluesaze » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:12 am

http://help.joomla.org/content/view/805/125/

While we are committed to accessibility, we are aware, and regret, that our website does not comply with many WCAG/508 requirements, nor does it currently validate with XHTML 1.0 Transitional.  The site is Joomla! based, and as such, will be compliant when Joomla! meets requirements.
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Re: NOT Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

Post by c2uk » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:58 am

This is an easy to fix thing, when you know where to look. Unfortunately, I don't know where to look from what you've told us (maybe someone else knows?!?).

Can you give us a link to your page?

By the way, your English is much better than most Spanish speaking people I know, no insult meant to Spanish people, I love Spanish people!

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Re: NOT Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

Post by Dequin » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:46 am

Thanks 4 the answers, I'm happy to see that the team is carrying 4 standard compliance.

I can't show you my site 'cause it's just a test site that is up just a few hours for testing ;)

Again, thxs 4d answer.


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