.. title: Documenting some absurdity.
.. slug: validation
.. date: 2008-10-16 13:20:27
.. tags: tech
.. link: 
.. description: 

I realized I had never checked this page for
validation, so I did. It didn't come close. Mostly this is because I'm
lazy and mistype HTML and occasionally fail at regexps when doing
search-and-replace, but even after fixing those the Youtube and Braek
embeds were gratuitously invalid. After googling I found `this
method <http://blog.case.edu/webdev/2008/04/20/youtube.html>`_ which
isn't too bad, except no way was I going to do all that just to embed a
stupid youtube video. Happilly I use blosxom which is delightfully
modifiable and the fancyquotes extension which I've extended a bit to
include this clause: :: } elsif ($block =~ /embed.break.com\\/\\w{8}/i
\|\| $block =~ /youtube\\.com\\/v\\/([^&]+)/i ){ $new\_body .= ' <script
type="text/javascript">swfobject.registerObject("myFlashContent-'.$filename.'",
"9.0.0");</script><object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="484"
height="392" id="myFlashContent-'.$filename.'"><param name="movie"
value="'.$block.'"><!--[if !IE]>--><object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="'.$block.'" width="484"
height="392"><!--<![endif]--><a
href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img
src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download\_buttons/get\_flash\_player.gif"
alt="Get Adobe Flash player"></a> <!--[if
!IE]>--></object><!--<![endif]--></object>'; Obviously I've added the
appropriate js to the lib directory and added a header value for it, but
it wasn't all that difficult actually. Right now it uses an id tagged
with the filename of the source file but I really should add a
sequential tag so there can be more than one embed per post. If only I
could care.