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captcha

← Sat, 10 May 2008 03:16:40 EDT

I tried a few things to stop spam on my website and nothing worked completely. So, I decided to add a CAPTCHA to my site. ReCAPTCHA was my captcha of choice.

The thing is, unlike most websites that use XHTML, my website uses XHTML and is actually output as an XML document instead of an HTML file (except in Internet Explorer, where up is down, right is left, etc.)—this is the correct way to use XHTML.

So why is this a problem? Apparently, many programs, reCAPTCHA included, use JavaScript that is incompatible with XML. So when reCAPTCHA tries to display its funny text and a nice text field, not a damned thing shows up (again, except on Internet Explorer).

The end result: only Internet Explorer users can submit comments on my website…how backwards. I suppose I’ll fix this in a few days.

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gino
21:31 (2008-05-10)
nice!

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