[geeklog-modules] Valid HTML 4.01/CSS 2

[Tony Bibbs]

Vincent, wtih GL2 we'll probably put processes in place that require a 
theme/pluging to be compliant before they are posted to our site.  Now 
that doesn't mean they still can't be released but we won't consider them 
'official'

-Tony

 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Vincent Furia wrote:

> Plugin/Block(/Theme) Developers,
> 
> I'm working on a HTML 4.01/CSS 2 valid theme for geeklog.  I'm pretty much
> done and I hope to release it in the near future.  There are two things
> I've noticed when creating the theme:
> 
> 1.  The Geeklog engine is pretty much compliant to these standards, any
> non-valid html tends to be in the themes.
> 2.  Most of the plugins and a few of the blocks are not web standard
> compliant.  The following plugins in particular:
>   * chatterblock (submitted a bug request to geeklogplugins)
>   * staticpages 1.2 (the CVS of '1.3?' is better, though I think it still
> needs some work)
>   * gallery random image block (at least the version I had)
> Note:  I don't mean to single these out, but that is all the plugins and
> blocks I have installed on my Geeklog.  I'm sure that there are more
> plugins/blocks that are not standards compliant.
> 
> The biggest problems among both the themes and the plugins is missing
> 'alt' properties from image tags and missing 'type' properties
> (type="text/javascript") from script tags.  Also the use of the '_'
> character in style sheets (which is not supported in the standard).
> Problems beyond these exists, this is just what I've noticed is most
> common.
> 
> So, a request from me to all module developers on their future releases:
> try to make your HTML/CSS standard compliant.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vinny
> 
> P.S.  In almost all the geeklog distributed themes the valign property is
> often spelled valigh.  Fixing that and adding alt propeties to all the
> images _could_ make some of the themes pretty close to HTML 4.01
> compliant.
> 
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