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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The RSS Feed needs to be put in to some location of the front pages maybe a link to a news page where you can then see there is a RSS Feed. inserting the following into the <head> of the front page will help more so, as it will allow auto-detection by many browsers and feed readersif using HTML: <head> ... <link rel="alternate" href="/rss_main.php" type="application/rss+xml"> ... </head> if using XHTML: <head> ... <link rel="alternate" href="/rss_main.php" type="application/rss+xml" /> ... </head> but if you're going to do fancy stuff like that, it would be an idea to make the feed valid, and while you're there you might as well make the home page valid, as well as your common.css and ns.css stylesheets files too and i just won't even mention accessability lol [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 23, 2006 12:53:08 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Holy [bleep].
That's quite damning. I hadn't looked closely at the source before. This could well explain some of the weirder site bugs that crop up from time to time. It's a strange mish-mash, isn't it? Fragments of xhtml, fragments of html, fragments that simply couldn't validate anywhere ever.... some really nasty script, including a couple of scripts that are included twice (that can't be good). The scripts have been responsible for some really weird behaviour. For example, IE autocomplete is broken because it does weird things when you press a key in an edit box. On the stats pages, the top dropdown works in Pocket IE, but the bottom one doesn't. I could go on.... I suppose the most tactful thing I can say is it's a work in progress. Still, I'm going to ping the techs and find out whether "it seems to work" is the gold standard for the website. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Oh, and a subscript:
The RSS feed is valid - there are just a couple of warnings. Anyway, I've pointed this thread out to the techs, and if any changes are required, I'm sure it will happen soon. The website may take longer to work over completely. The WCG isn't exactly overstaffed. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
That's quite damning. I hadn't looked closely at the source before. This could well explain some of the weirder site bugs that crop up from time to time. It's a strange mish-mash, isn't it? Fragments of xhtml, fragments of html, fragments that simply couldn't validate anywhere ever.... some really nasty script, including a couple of scripts that are included twice (that can't be good). well quite, i could have elaborated, but i thought i'd let the validator say it for me, but it's not just invalid code i'm sorry to say...The scripts have been responsible for some really weird behaviour. For example, IE autocomplete is broken because it does weird things when you press a key in an edit box. On the stats pages, the top dropdown works in Pocket IE, but the bottom one doesn't. I could go on.... well the first mistake was relying on javascript in the first place, if JS is disabled some functions/features don't work at all, so they're requiring/assuming JS to be available and enabled, a bad idea, the same effects can be achieved using server-side scriptingI suppose the most tactful thing I can say is it's a work in progress. Still, I'm going to ping the techs and find out whether "it seems to work" is the gold standard for the website. well to be completely blunt it's broken, however you look at itit only works because browsers mange to work out what the "author" ment with their tag-soup, i'll leave it there, enough said i think |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Oh, and a subscript: i suppose that depends on your definition of "valid"The RSS feed is valid - there are just a couple of warnings. Anyway, I've pointed this thread out to the techs, and if any changes are required, I'm sure it will happen soon. The website may take longer to work over completely. The WCG isn't exactly overstaffed. just scraping in on the minimum requirements isn't really enough for example, you can have empty alt attributes for images, which is valid, but they'll be a fat lot of use for those who can't see the images (generally the visually impaired folks out there), alt attributes are quite valuable and considering WCG seems desperate for CPU power (even thou their apps aren't exactly efficient to start with) surely they'd want anyone with a computer to spare? and they wouldn't care if they're blind, deff or whatever, i assume WCG would still want their CPU time all the same so by not having an accessable site, you're excluding a significant percentage of your potential crunchers, can't argue with facts and it's not just of benifit to users, a well designed site will be easier to maintain, cost less in terms of maintanence-time, bandwidth, server load etc. |
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