Getting “AddThis” share button to validate…

  • working-together

    (@working-together)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    A question for those experienced using AddThis.

    So I am using a standard AddThis button on my wordpress site (as below) and I get to validation errors as follows: there is no attribute “addthis:url” AND there is no attribute “addthis:title” .

    From reading their boards they say that you need to add: <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221; xmlns:addthis=”http://www.addthis.com/help/api-spec”&gt; at top.

    This will be “techinically” (their word) valid xhtml. However, they say that still don’t expect W3C to validate because the valdator does not take into account/recognize “custom namespaces.”

    Is this true? If I use “AddThis” I need to just live with these two errors, which they say aren’t really errors? It’s a bit annoying as it’s the only two errors I get.

    Standard Add this button as below:

    <!– AddThis Button BEGIN –>
    <div><div class=”addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style”>
    Share
    <span class=”addthis_separator”>|</span>




    </div>
    <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4b93e5845331bf71″></script></div&gt;
    <!– AddThis Button END –>

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    it’s true
    you might want to read their privacy policy also as they track you and visitors across the net for several companies

    Thread Starter working-together

    (@working-together)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks.

    I decided to use the “Sociable” plugin which seems to work pretty smoothly for what I need and allows my page to validate.

    Marventus

    (@marventus)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi guys,

    I found this post because I am having the same validation errors than the ones described by the OP, except I get two of each (for the price of one, haha).
    I am going to remove AddThis from my blogs because I think it is unacceptable for a tool like that not to validate: there are a lot of users (like myself) that think validation is a big deal.
    Samboll, thanks for the heads up about the privacy policy. After your warning, I reread it more carefully (I admit I had read it a little fast), and you’re right. So IMO that’s another reason not to use this tool.
    Does anyone know if the Sociable plugin also tracks user activity?

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