Yeah, my hosting provider sucks, but it's also my choice to use them (they are doing it for free).
One of these years I'll finally get enough money to get a real hosting site, but until then I'm stuck with the lame coding trick. Heck I can't even afford an iPhone (I did all my coding blind). However, given my limited resources, and crappy hosting scenario, I feel good about the 6 or 7 games that I built. I didn't take your message as "bitchy", I took it for what it was, a good recommendation to help me improve my pages, and I thank you for that, and I hope you continue to critique not only mine, but everyone else who asks for help. On Sep 17, 9:41 pm, RobG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 18, 3:49 am, AwayBBL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RobG, the reason that that page fails w3c validator is that my isp > > places some bad code infront of the actual code. The actual code that > > runs, is fine. > > It may run fine for some browsers, but in general it is somewhat > problemtatic. Browsers ignore the doctype declaration and use > whatever the server sends in the response header. The junk your ISP > inserts into the head of the page means the whole thing will be > treated as invalid HTML, so you are better off accepting that and > removing the html, head and body tags from your markup and putting all > scripts and css in external files. > > The fact that your ISP inserts a noframe element at the start of your > page means the browser must put a head element before that, hopefully > it will also move link and style elements into the head too. > > If you want to use a doctype, use HTML Transitional, but your document > isn't going to validate anyway so that point is moot. > > You may want to discuss the issue with your ISP, they may have a > scheme so that their stuff is added in a more appropriate place in the > document. The best solution is to find an ISP that doesn't mess with > your pages, but that might not be suitable for you in the short term. > > I'd be keen to know if your ISP asked for permission to insert their > junk in your pages - do you have some form of agreement for them to do > that? If you are developing an application for a mobile platform, > bandwidth is pretty critical, as is processor power for all the extra > junk. > > PS. I received an e-mail that my first reply came across as bitchy, > that was not my intention. There are many pages on the web claiming > to be XHTML that are in fact nothing like it and should not be using > that doctype. There is no benefit to using XHTML on the web, and a > number of drawbacks. HTML strict is, and will remain for quite some > time, the best doctype. > > <URL:http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml> > > Oh, nearly forgot: :-) > > -- > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
