One thing that bugs me about third party plug-ins is that they always seem to need a bit of code cleaning up in order to make them standards-compliant.
I validate my site against XHTML 1.0 Transitional and typically it has been the plug-ins from YouTube, Google and now SpringWidgets that have needed some fixing.
Anyway, a while back I discovered an article on A List Apart, talking about the Flash Satay method of fixing Flash code and explaining the changes needed. It is quite detailed but it really boils down to two things.
Ampersands and embed tags. Get rid of them.
Simply replace “&” symbols with “&” and delete any “embed” tags within object tags.
You might need to do a bit more for certain plug-ins but I’ve found that making those two simple changes fixed the plug-ins for YouTube and SpringWidgets.
Nice and easy!
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