Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Going off the post below, I made several changes to the site to help prevent the “Done, but with errors on page” / “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site…” message.  There were two ‘problem areas’ that I discovered.  First is the post about this year’s CoasterMania.  The video I put in was very badly added in there.  The second was the little graphic animation along the right that shows different groups I support.  So what was the problem (hopefully)?

The code for both was not XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant.  For those that don’t know, there are different standards for placing information on the Internet.  At the beginning of a website page’s code, there’s supposed to be information on what standard is in use so that your web browser can properly understand how to show you the web page you’re loading.  It’s also designed to help a web page look similar (if not the same) across different web browsers.  What happened here is that both the video and the animation parts were hand-coded in, and I didn’t follow this standard exactly right.

You can verify that I’m XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant by clicking this graphic that I can proudly display now.

But that wasn’t the whole problem.  Back to that video.  The way it was rendered (drawn on your screen) was first some text was placed there – the exact text doesn’t really matter (it was “Magnum XL-200 video” but again not important).  Then, some JavaScript (it’s a way to program things, to put it simply) took that text and threw the video on top of it.  It was this act of modifying text into an image that I think caused this.  It would be ok normally, but again referring to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article on this, I was editing text outside of the child container (I think), which lead to running into the bug.

It is 5 am local time, so at this point, I could be completely wrong on any of this being the cause, but hopefully I’ve fixed things up.