Google Custom Search Code Test

This is a simple page to test/evaluate how Google Custom Search works with typical MobileSiteOS™ pages. This page is served up as doctype 'HTML5', (mime type 'text/html', utf-8 encoding).

As of this writing (8/6/2010), Google Custom Search doesn't work for any DOCTYPE served as XML. That is, most (all?) Google code can't be served as 'application/xhtml+xml'. Please see our test page Google AdSense Script for a complete explanation.

This is of coarse very frustrating. Google code rarely seems to work properly for any doctype declaration other than HTML Transitional, if that. Placing the Google generated Google Custom Search code in the body of a page generates errors for the <link rel="stylesheet"> tag. You can't place link tags in the body of XHTML Strict documents. Placing it in the head secton of the document then solves the error problem, but the Google Custom Search div doesn't position correctly. What a mess... The real irony is that using strict xHTML standards could have been the best way to produce pages which render correctly for mobile devices.