Navarr's Tech Side The Technical Side of my Life

5Jan/080

About the Author (part 1)

There are some people reading this tech blog of mine, so, I guess I should introduce who I am, eh?  Considering that most people reading this are people I've never talked to before, or some of the people that know me online.

My name is Navarr Barnier.  I'm a sixteen year old student at Klein Collins High School in Houston, Texas.  I work in PHP, (X)HTML, XML, CSS, and am starting to get familiar with JavaScript.  I considering myself a Web Developer.  I can't really do anything with layouts, but code and backend, they are my friends.

Recently, I've started being more active in the Web Design and Development Community.  I've joined the mailing lists for Microformats, became a member of the DataPortability Google (and Facebook) group, Joined the APML Facebook group, and started the process of getting a spot in the HTML5 W3C working group.

I hate the terms, but I love the concepts of Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web.  The internet is truly moving in a good direction.  We are truly entering the Information Technology age.

Those are the basics.  When I post Part 2, I'll cover over what www.gtaero.net is as well as its future.

5Jan/081

Depressing Validation Results

On a whim, I decided to attempt validating every website I mentioned yesterday.  Overall, XHTML won out the results.  But they are depressing none the less.

  • XHTML
    • Blogger (This Blog)
      • XHTML 1.0 Transitional
      • FAILED
      • 70 Errors
    • Opera
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • PASS!
    • FireFox (Mozilla)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • PASS!
    • Facebook (Home Page for signed in user)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 659 Errors (wow.)
    • MySpace (Home Page)
      • NO DOCTYPE FOUND (FAILED)
    • Twitter (Home page for signed in user)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 82 Errors
    • W3C (Home Page)
      • XHTML 1.0 Strict
      • PASS!
  • HTML
    • Microsoft (Home page)
      • HTML 4.0 Transitional
      • FAILED
      • 31 Errors
    • Yahoo!
      • HTML 4.01 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 294 Errors
    • Apple
      • HTML 4.01 Transitional
      • FAILED
      • 4 Errors
    • Google (non-iGoogle homepage)
      • NO DOCTYPE FOUND (FAILED)
    • WHATWG (Homepage)
      • HTML 4.01 Strict
      • FAILED
      • 5 Errors

PASS/FAIL Results:

  • XHTML
    • 3/7 Passed
  • HTML
    • 0/5 Passed

The Results are bad enough as they are for the XHTML websites, but not a single HTML website validates, not even the WHATWG.  Irony much?

5Jan/080

Announcing Participation

Well, I don't have much to write right now, but I am announcing participation in the DataPortability group.

The goal of the DataPortability group is to "put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability.  To promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community."

You can view more information on their website, www.dataportability.org.