Re: doctype & html verification

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:26:58PM -0400, Luis M wrote:
> 
> >Playing with
> >
> >http://validator.w3.org/check/referer
> >
> >gives me a bad feeling.
> >slashHead.tpl declares a doctype of
> >
> >"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
> >
> >but does
> >
> ><link ... />
> >
> >just a few lines below. A quick
> >
> >grep '/ *>' *.tpl
> >
> >shows a lot of this strange XML code.
> >
> >Is this just an oversight?
> 
> At some point I believe that this templates were validated. I remember 
> somebody talking about that here in the -devel (or was it -users) list.
> I think is time to move on to "4.01 Strict" and do some of those strange 
> things that look like XML but are actually somewhere in the gray area 
> (XHTML?). For instance, the infamous: < br /> . And similar tags.
>

I think I may have done this while correcting the IE6/centering problem
and didn't finish and change it back.

> I also play a lot with the validator, but if something looks good on 
> Mozilla, I don't even bother to check it. IE guys are out of luck :-) The 
> good thing is that Mozilla does "the right thing" most of the time (except 
> for those < blink > tags and other crap people tend to use in other pages, 
> not us here in phpslash :-) ).
> 
> The right thing to do is to pull the phpslash-dev module from CVS and play 
> with it and submit patches -- or totally new skins from phpslash-skin 
> module.
> 

If you check out the skins from the phpslash-skin cvs and they aren't
working, most of them need {TOP} and {BOTTOM} placeholders added to the
index templates.


> Just my .02 contrib...
> 
> 
> P.D. #phpslash on irc.freenode.net is always open for comment. Joe and 
> others, including myself, regularly hang on that channel.
> 

yup

Joe.

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