Simon Dvorak.com

Some of you (there is someone out there right?) may have noticed that this site does not validated lately as I have claimed in the footer. This is due to the fact that I use Blogger.com to make my posts. Their recent site redesign added the long awaited ability to make comments on posts. (yay!) However, the link they generate to the comment posting page contains un-escaped ampersands in the link, a no-no under the XHTML transitional DOCTYPE that I am using.

What can I do? Besides the email I have into Blogger…nothing really. I don’t validate and that is annoying considering the I’ve done to follow standards. Also, considering Blogger’s new “standards based” redesign I would expect them to generate standards compliant code. Alas, this is not the case and if I want to continue to use Blogger’s service I will continue to not validate.

If Blogger doesn’t offer any suggestions, perhaps I will switch over to Wordpress. It has more features and, like Blogger, is free. I’ve stayed away from it because it requires the use of a database and PHP support from your server. I didn’t want to have to mess with that on my simple personal page. However, my hosting company provides those services for free so maybe it is time I bit the bullet.

What do you think?

UPDATE – I recieved an email from Blogger stating that, in fact, there was currently no way to escape the “&”. I have installed WordPress…However, I need to spend some time with it to create a CSS design for it. Keep your eyes peeled.