Congratulations to this week’s winner for Geek of the Week: "Deadgrass" from Marquette, Michigan.
He dressed up as Frodo when he went to see the Lord of the Rings movies in the theater.
So the problem I was having – with the javascript not working for the Spanish and French translations of the Geek Test – turned out to be a really stupid mistake.
I spent way too much time going through the code, line by line, fixing every little error in the (now) XHTML. There were no mistakes, and yet somehow when I uploaded them, the javascript wasn’t working properly. Triple DUH, for the moment I finally figured it out.
The translators had added additional questions to their translations. The javascript I’m using lists the Q-number… which just needed to be changed to reflect the current number of questions.
I can’t believe I’m blogging this. It was a really stupid mistake. At least now that’s one little nagging thing that I don’t have to worry about anymore!
The Geek Test is now available in Italian. Thanks to Francesco Taraschi, aka "ilfranz" in Italy for volunteering and making it happen so quickly!
I realized that the javascript in some of the translations wasn’t working, so the final score couldn’t be calculated. The problem with this stems from the (Spanish and French) translations being done a while back when the original code was different. Not to mention that the translators took some liberties to change the code further, making it more difficult for me to make everything similar on the current site.
Anyway, I’m still working on that. The German and Italian translations work fine. While I was updating them, I decided to start the official move from HTML to XHTML standards. The (English) Geek Test and the translations now all have Transitional XHTML doctypes and compliant code, and the rest will hopefully not be too far behind. There are actually quite a few pages on my site to update now… so I have some work to do.
It still really pisses me off that Yahoo! sticks non-compliant tracking codes on the bottom of every page, so even though the pages I code are completely correct, I can’t put this
on any pages. Well, someday I hope to have other hosting alternatives. For now, I’m stuck with it.
