A present from Cynthia
This turned out to be an error in the validators and has now been fixed
If you are entering the holiday break secure in the knowledge that your site passes all the Cynthia automated checks….. check again.
Hi-Software has given us all a Christmas present.
A new check for additional language META tags has been added or broken or fixed; whatever, it now fails your site if you don’t have:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb" />
<meta name="language" content="en-gb" />
as well as:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB" lang="en-GB" dir="ltr">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
or similar tailored to your site and language.
To the tune of John Lennon’s Merry Christmas - War is over. All sing along now…..
So this is Christmas
What’s Cynthia done
Your site which was valid
Is failing on one
And just for this Christmas
They thought they’d have fun
They’ve added new METAs
And not told no one……
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
You’re recoding next year
Ok, OK so the grammar is atrocious but one has to do these things when one is an artiste.
Joan Rawson responds:
Posted: December 28th, 2007 at 8:06 pm →
Thanks for posting this, it’s the first I’ve heard of it and the site is failing on exactly what you said. Is it going to be a problem if I leave it?
ConnieB responds:
Posted: December 29th, 2007 at 12:08 am →
Well this is good. More work.
Leonid responds:
Posted: December 29th, 2007 at 1:12 am →
What is this mean for site? Will not be right in browser? What need to do?
Jaybee responds:
Posted: December 29th, 2007 at 1:34 am →
The error is at Priority 2. It’s entirely up to you what you want to do about it. If you want Cynthia to report a clean page then you’ll need to make sure you add the missing lines in the head of each of your pages. It won’t affect Browser layout as they’re Meta Tags and not involved in the display.
As I understand it, the DDA and the EU regs require business sites to comply with all Priority 1 checks and most of Priority 2 so you won’t be in any trouble if you don’t do it.
I’d be interested to know why these have been added to the checks. The Metas are used to declare the natural language of the document and are most useful for non-English or multi-language sites which is why, I thought, they were optional.