Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:20 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Bob McConnell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Our SOP is to generate standards compliant pages, validate them with
> > Firefox and the HTML Validator add-on, then deal with the deviant
> > browsers. It's a lot less work than trying to do it the other way
> > around. There are a few minor issues, such as W3C still refusing to
> > allow the autocomplete attribute for forms, while PCI requires it. But
> > those are few and far between.
> 
> Go HTML 5.
> It doesn't work with the validator plugin but it validates at W3C.
> 
> And while going HTML 5, start migrating to HTML 5 layout.
> 
> IE
> 
> <div id="aside">
> <aside>
> // stuff
> </aside>
> </div>
> 
> Most browsers do not recognize the HTML 5 layout tags yet, so you have 
> to wrap them in a div and attach the style to the div, but as browsers 
> start adopting HTML 5 your content will work with context features even 
> while still wrapped in the div tags.
> 
> It is particularly useful for article and section, where the depth of a 
> section within an article can be helpful for non visual browsers.
> 


What about search engines? Will there be any impact on these,
particularly with regards to semantic content?

Also, are there any browsers that would fall over with unknown tags? I
know IE used to not take too kindly to these sorts of things, but that
was a good few years ago (I'm thinking IE2/IE3 here)!

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk