Dexterity Unlimited presents articles about web design and web site architecture.
Unfortunately, there is not a good way to explain this problem without having this page generate an error in the W3C HTML validator. If you are a web standards advocate, as I am, you realize the distaste of purposefully creating a page that does not validate. Though this page is not valid XHTML, I present an evidence-based, cross-browser compatible method for embedding YouTube videos in this article.
Do you make web sites? Do you know (X)HTML? I had to ask this question after spending the past few hours wading through some code that I did not create. That’s probably the most infuriating and time-consuming thing that any web developer ever does.
I’ve never used Dreamweaver, and I doubt that I ever will. For one thing, I don’t think they make a version that will run on Linux, but that’s beside the point. I suppose that in the hands of someone who truly knows what they’re doing, Dreamweaver can spit out some nice code. Unfortunately, I don’t think most people know what they’re doing.
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