Comments on: Devil’s Advocate - Why You SHOULD’NT Validate Your Website

By: Tony Scialdone

Tony Scialdone — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:23:22 +0000

Kris:

I’m thinking that there’s been some miscommunication here…is there more we might help you with? I won’t presume to know the answers to all of your questions, but I’m willing to try.

As posted, either & copy ; OR &# 169 ; (remove the spaces) will create a copyright symbol. If those don’t work, it could be that you’re using a program like FP that messes things up.

Is there more? Did I misunderstand?

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:45:28 +0000

Once more without the

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en”

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:44:36 +0000

Oh, look at that, you can’t put in a DOCTYPE either. Heavy sigh. Try this without the dots.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:39:17 +0000

My apologies to both of you, I just wasn’t clear in my original post. Yes, I use & copy; without the space, but I can’t type that here or the copyright symbol shows up. My DOCTYPE is:

It’s not THAT big of an issue, I just thought a guru would know:-))

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:25:27 +0000

Kris, do you have a line of code that looks like this:

< meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" / >
(without the spaces)

It defines the character set which could be the problem.

By: Tony Scialdone

Tony Scialdone — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:20:40 +0000

If you’re typing & copy ; without spaces and it’s still not working, then it’s being translated improperly…that’s the proper code. You might also try &# 169 ; without spaces.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:05:06 +0000

Tony,

I tried & copy; (you can’t type that all as one word or you get the copyright symbol). Still get the Â

By: Tony Scialdone

Tony Scialdone — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:55:10 +0000

& copy ; without spaces…

By: Tony Scialdone

Tony Scialdone — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:54:50 +0000

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:30:47 +0000

Tony,

Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound whiny before. I thought we were *supposed* be thinking of ways to avoid validating:-)) FP’s poor markup has forced me to learn a lot more than I ever wanted to know about CSS and XHTML. I haven’t tried Notepad ++ but I have learned that if I want to markup a page that FP changed as soon as I hit the save button, I need to write it in a plain text editor (Notepad) and import it. Sheesh!

Do you have any idea why I can’t do a copyright symbol? It keeps changing itself to an A with the symbol next to it. I have tried both inserting the symbol as a font, and using the & copy; notation but it still keeps a changing.