On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:44:13 -0800, jody tate wrote:
> Does anyone have a preferred way to view and validate generated source code?
> By
> generated source I mean after Ajax, JavaScript, and so on have done their
> magic.
>
>
[...]
>
>
> Yet viewing generated source in Firebug, that same meta tag remains closed.
> Firebug,
> however, doesn't have (or I haven't noticed?) a way to copy and paste source
> code for
> direct input validation to the W3C validator. This, then, is the ultimate
> goal: to get
> the generated source, copy it and paste it into a validator. I validated with
> static
> mockups prior to de-building the XHTML and giving it over to JavaScript, but
> I want to
> validate now to make sure I'm staying on track.
>
>
> Have others run into this problem?
>
Yes. I have come across it, although for me it is not a problem.
This behavior seems logical to me. After all, what displays is the
browser's interpretation of the document, which is likely HTML.
Unless you are doing something server-side, you are likely sending
the documents to the browser with an HTML MIME type,
as opposed to XHTML, which requires special handling.
One suggestion I have to get Firefox to treat the page as XHTML
is to rename your document with dot-xhtml (".xhtml") extension instead
of the dot-htm or dot-html. This works from the hard drive, and quite
a few hosts are set up to send the correct MIME type as well.
Not all are though - you need to check with your host.
You may have problems viewing this in Internet Explorer, so don't
use it as a permanent web page - just use it for your purpose of
validating generated code.
I hope this suggestion helps.
[Aside] I help out at a computer lab where web design is taught.
One misconception I see over and over is that putting things like an
XHTML DOCYPE or declaring UTF-8 encoding in a META element somehow
alters the document itself. Saying it is so does not make it so,
despite what certain politicians would have us believe.
Cordially,
David
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