Validating Google Maps

[Lou]

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map.openInfoWindowHtml(map.getCenter(), "<img src='../jpg/Finian.jpg' width='64' height='80' alt='picture of Peter'><b>This is a picture of 951 Greene Street</b>");

From the w3c, www-validator Community form I got this reference http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator ... tml#script which says about HTML in Script in part

...end tags are recognized within SCRIPT elements, but other kinds of markup--such as start tags and comments--are not. This is an unintuitive quirk of SGML for elements defined to have CDATA content.

Authors should avoid using strings such as "</P>" in their embedded scripts. In JavaScript, authors may use a backslash to prevent the string from being parsed as markup:

So this works cleanly.

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map.openInfoWindowHtml(map.getCenter(), "<img src='../jpg/Finian.jpg' width='64' height='80' alt='picture of Peter'><b>This is a picture of 951 Greene Street<\/b>");

[Albert Wiersch]

So this works cleanly.

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map.openInfoWindowHtml(map.getCenter(), "<img src='../jpg/Finian.jpg' width='64' height='80' alt='picture of Peter'><b>This is a picture of 951 Greene Street<\/b>");

Thanks Lou... that's even "cleaner".

But I still think it is best to use external script files whenever possible.

[Lou]

But I still think it is best to use external script files whenever possible.

I agree if there was more script to this. I think in this case the overhead of the serial file calls out weights the elegance of an external file.

Sense the "offending" script contains actual data there is no advantage of reuse and I keep thinking about the board member that uses dial-up; any overhead is a drag.

All goes to show why it is hard for a cat to keep its skin. (More than one way to skin a ...)