[dev] Markup Validation

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Sat Mar 7 00:17:15 UTC 2009


Quoting duck <duck at obala.net>:

> Working on one project I tried to clean my html using   Markup Validation
> Service from http://validator.w3.org/. I see that all apps common-header.inc
> produces warnings with the blow message. Attached is a patch that solves it.

Speaking of this (and thanks for the patch) - I propose switching to  
either HTML 4.01 or HTML 5 for our doctype. It would have to be a  
gradual thing since we've got a lot of xhtml markup now, but the  
thinking on xhtml has evolved a lot in the last 5+ years. Supporting  
arguments:

http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/
http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

-chuck


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