W3C Issue

  • Basically after using “HTML Tidy/HTML Validator” a Firefox Mozilla plugin, I noticed that there is a small issue. Apparently you must use src attribute when using the charset attribute on a script tag. Since your not using the src attrbute can you please remove the charset attribute.

    So:

    $widget =”<script charset=\”utf-8\” type=\”text/javascript\”>var switchTo5x=true;</script>”;

    should be:

    $widget =”<script type=\”text/javascript\”>var switchTo5x=true;</script>”;

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  • Hello User,

    Can you please provide more details about the issue you are facing so that we can further diagnose the issue and if required we will forward it to our teach team?

    Thread Starter MMDeveloper

    (@mmdeveloper)

    Thanks for getting back to me.

    I’ve not experienced any major issues with the plugin, it works very well.

    I am teaching myself how to be a better web developer and try to be as semantic and close to W3C standard as possible. Basically the W3C analyser said that you need to remove charset attribute. It doesn’t cause a break or a fault which is probably why you guys don’t know about this, but I think the W3C only want you to use charset when referencing a javascript library rather then inline javascript.

    So in summary, I have not experienced a disaster or a bug, just simply letting you know that the W3C doesn’t like your charset attribute on the line mentioned above. I think this was the only issue with one of my sites, but won’t cause me any damage though.

    Hello,

    Thanks for the suggestion. We will keep this in our to do list to implement in future versions of Plugin.

    I have this plugin passing W3C Validation after a small change.
    If you go into your WordPress SQL Database, and go to the WP_Options table, in there you will find st_widget. This contains the information for the 3 JavaScript files you will need for this plugin. I removed the ‘charset=”utf-8″ from the first and last scripts. I found the plugin ran successfully on my site, and the site now passes W3C validation.

    @ LukaHoward
    Thank you for the suggestion!

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