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Submitted by catholicservant on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 4:24pm
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You like a particular website and you instinctively right-click and VIEW SOURCE to see what they built it in. 

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oscatholic's picture

so, so true!

Advancing the faith.

Submitted by oscatholic on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 9:55pm.
Matt K's picture

LOL, you too?

Submitted by Matt K on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:32am.
balleyne's picture

ctrl + u

ah, yes.

http://blaise.ca/

Submitted by balleyne on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 6:13pm.
mdhoerr's picture

Yup.

And then I run it through the html validator and see what validation errors it get (don't get me wrong - even good sites tend to generate at least a few).

Submitted by mdhoerr on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 8:59am.
oscatholic's picture

Most definitely - especially when you start adding in little javascript widgets and third party code - things can get quite messy!

Advancing the faith.

Submitted by oscatholic on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 9:08am.
catholicservant's picture

I've had such mixed experiences with validation. In theory, it's absolutely the goal to shoot for.

But when I get these 3rd party apps that I'm not capable of debugging and fixing...ouch.

Submitted by catholicservant on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 9:16am.
oscatholic's picture

Just validated OSC - almost all of the 24 errors had to do with the YouTube embed. Others were for the Twitter widget. Silly YouTube. Silly Twitter.

Advancing the faith.

Submitted by oscatholic on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 9:18am.
mdhoerr's picture

Well, there was a small problem with Gravatar, and I just fixed it in my version of the code and let the author know. I tend to stick to software I can at least read and modify if I have to, but that's my background.

I started out before frameworks existed, and have been used to "rolling my own". I think Drupal is really cool because it does all the repetitive work for me - I don't have to write my own functions/classes for connecting to the database, checking authorization and permission level, etc.

Submitted by mdhoerr on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 9:24am.

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