[dev] How to ensure XHTML compliance

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> Is there any automated testing in place to validate the HTML that Horde
> generates?  I've been meaning to ask that for some time, but haven't

No. I usually use the WebDeveloper Firefox extension from time to time 
on random pages.

> didn't display properly.  When I did take the time last weekend to do
> it, it was made a lot simpler because I've been using the HTML
> Validator extension for Firefox
> (http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/), which is based on Tidy.  For

Nice. Didn't know that one yet.

> every page that loads, it parses the HTML and displays a summary of
> Errors and Warnings and it was pretty easy to see that with a missing
> DOCTYPE, the entire header was missing as well.  Most pages generate
> warnings and I'm wondering to what degree of XHTML compliance Horde
> strives for.  Are pedantic things like:
>
> <a> attribute "id" has invalid value "1"
> The attribute ID is of type ID. As described above, it should begin
> with a letter
>
> of concern?

Yes. Where possible we try to be pedantic.

> Just wondering if its worth my time to investigate the warnings, or if
> things are compliant enough as is...  If just a few people used Horde
> with that extension for a little while, a lot of minor non-compliant
> HTML might be caught, but at the same time, you could go crazy with
> some of the pedantic compliant issues as well.

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Jan.

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