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In Repair

In an attempt to make the Av experience a more enjoyable one, I’ve been working out some bugs. The last few were more about making sure everything checked out and validated by W3C standards. It appears that I have things in order but I did run into a few problems.

1. I had to change 2 instances of

header(“Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8”);

header(“Content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8”);

in textpattern/publish.php in order to make the XHTML validate without errors about incorrect content-type.

2. By changing the content type, it seems to make validation more strict and caused the Flickr Badge code on the Lifestream page bring up an error page. After some research it looks as though the ampersand characters in the script were causing the error. Since changing all instances of “&” their proper entity codes I no longer get the error but now my photostream doesn’t display at all. I’ll have to look into this more.

3. Originally, I was using the nifty rss_livearchive plugin to power the Archives page. Some of the CSS this script uses causes the CSS to not validate. By removing the CSS code that causes this problem, that in turn causes some things on the page to misalign. For the time being I’ve decided to go with a more traditional archives page.

If anyone has any suggestions on the issues I ran into using rss_livearchive or why my Flickr photostream no longer displays on the Lifestream page, contact me.