I had to fix my Meebo Widget to make it XHTML compliant and found a tool to automagically convert the non-valid code to pretty XHTML that validates.
It’s the MeeboMaker Tool. Just copy and paste your non-valid code into the box and click the button to get full XHTML compliant code. Thanks to Kelvin Wong for making such a neat tool.
The problem is that the code generated by Meebo’s widget factory is non-valid XHTML. This can be a problem for people who build web sites that require valid HTML. The Meebo widget factory produces a Flash container based on the embed tag which is not part of the XHTML 1.0 Transitional specification. I was able to build a valid container based on the object tag which will pass automatic validation.
Rather than get into the messy details, I have created a simple application that extracts the important bits of information from the embed tag and builds a new object tag. It is still kind of temperamental, but it works well as long as you don’t try to feed it bad code. Give MeeboMaker a try and let me know what you think.
Thanks again Kelvin!